Web Scraping Engineer

Team: Oxylabs

Location: Vilnius

Workplace Type: hybrid

In this role, you will:

• Design and build high-scale crawlers, scrapers, and the surrounding infrastructure capable of handling thousands to millions of requests.
• Take client requirements and own projects end-to-end, building custom solutions from scratch without waiting for detailed specifications.
• Write functional, reusable code in Python or Go, heavily leveraging AI-driven IDEs to maximize output and efficiency.
• Work within our data platform to enable the seamless building and delivery of large datasets.
• Use internal scraping tools or build new ones as priorities and client routes change.
• Justify technical decisions, perform code reviews, and collaborate closely with the team to ensure quality solutions.

Your skills & experiences:

• Multiple years of backend development experience with Python or Go (or strong web scraping expertise driven by AI tools).
• Familiarity with web scraping fundamentals, parsing, headless browsers, and databases like PostgreSQL or BigQuery.
• High level of independence—you can align on an approach in a discussion and then fully own the delivery.
• A business-first mentality that prioritizes speed and delivery over perfection, with a "thick skin" for direct feedback.
• Hands-on experience and a strong comfort level with AI-driven development tools (such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Antigravity).

Nice to have:

• Experience in data engineering: ETL/ELT pipelines, Spark, Airflow, Dagster, etc.

Tech stack:

• Python, Go
• Databases: PostgreSQL, BigQuery
• Hosting: Google Cloud, Hetzner, private cloud
• Scraping tools: Playwright, internal APIs, Camoufox, headless browsers
• Data Engineering: Airflow
• AI tools: Claude Code, Cursor

Salary & Benefits

• Gross salary: 4400 - 7000 EUR/month. Keep in mind that we are open to discuss a different salary based on your skills and competencies.
• Growth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.
• Health & Well-being: Private health insurance, psychotherapy, on-site well-being consultants, 24/7 gym access, and a wellness app.
• Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation, quarterly team-building budgets, and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.
• Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, barista coffee, and all the tools you need. See the full list of benefits here: https://career.oxylabs.io/blog/our-work-benefits/