Senior Software Engineer (Web Scraping, Data acquisition, Data collection)
- Full-time
- Compensation: EUR 46000 - EUR 55000 - yearly

At NIQ Digital shelf, scraping isn’t just about collecting data, it’s about outsmarting the obstacles that stand in the way of visibility. Every day, we process tens of billions of data points from thousands of sources, both web and mobile, and transform them into actionable insights for the world’s top retailers and brands.
You’ll join a team of 60+ scrapers , engineers, analysts, and data lovers from across the globe. As part of our scraping and R&D; team, you’ll have space to experiment, push boundaries , and bring bold ideas to life. You’ll collaborate closely with Customer Success , Operations , and Data to ensure we extract high-quality, actionable data — fast and at scale.
This isn’t just a coding job. You’ll need to think like a hacker , move like an engineer, and act like an inventor
- Design and build distributed scraping architectures that can scale across thousands of domains.




- Reverse engineer APIs and mobile apps using tools like Frida , mitmproxy , Charles Proxy, burp and many more .
- Lead technical innovation in scraping: identify edge cases, prototype new approaches, and share knowledge with the team.
- Set up anomaly detection and monitoring to detect blockers or failures early

What You Bring
- 5+ years of experience with Python and large-scale scraping projects.
- You think independently and enjoy solving problems no one has solved before.
- Familiarity with structured storage formats (Parquet, Avro), or real-time stream processing.
- Good knowledge of databases like MongoDB, InfluxDB, and Redis, including how they work and how to optimize them.
- Experience with real-device simulation for mobile scraping.
- Comfortable building and maintaining distributed task queues (Celery, Kafka, etc.).
- Experience scraping high-security platforms or mobile-first environments.
- Exposure to Linux or cloud environments (AWS,

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 NielsenIQ
📍 Barcelona