Web Scraping Specialist

About the role

Social Fetch normalises public social data into a single REST API. When Instagram changes a field name or TikTok rotates an anti-bot challenge, our customers shouldn't find out from a broken production job. You'll be the person who keeps data flowing—researching, implementing, and hardening scrapers and integrations across 20+ networks.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain scrapers and integrations for major social platforms (profiles, posts, search, media, engagement).
• Diagnose fetch failures: HTTP errors, schema drift, rate limits, bot detection, geo blocks, and partial responses.
• Design resilient fetch strategies—retries, fallbacks, session handling, proxy rotation where appropriate.
• Keep our API field mappings stable when platforms change their response shapes.
• Document tricky platform behaviour so the team doesn't re-learn the same lessons.
• Monitor production quality signals and fix regressions before customers notice.

What we're looking for

• Several years of hands-on web scraping experience—not tutorial-level Playwright scripts.
• Deep familiarity with anti-bot systems, browser automation (Playwright/Puppeteer), HTTP client work, and parsing messy HTML/JSON.
• Comfort debugging production incidents: reading logs, reproducing failing responses, shipping fixes quickly.
• Strong TypeScript or JavaScript skills (our stack is TypeScript).
• Pragmatic security and compliance instincts—you work with public data and know where lines get grey.

Nice to have

• Experience maintaining scrapers at scale (many platforms, not just one).
• Familiarity with proxy providers, CAPTCHA handling, and mobile/web API reverse engineering.
• Prior work at a data or API product company.

Benefits

Full-time team members receive:

• Flexible hours — Async-first. We measure output, not screen time—work when you're most effective.
• Unlimited PTO — Take the time you need. Coordinate with the team for longer breaks.
• Equipment stipend — Home office setup that works for you—desk, monitor, or whatever you need.
• Learning budget — Courses, books, and conferences relevant to your role and growth.
• Health benefits — Health coverage for full-time team members. Details shared during hiring.

How to apply