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.





Detect common anti-bot measures (like JavaScript checks or browser behavior detection) to build crawlers that adjust to appear more human-like.

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

5+ years of experience with

Python and large-scale scraping projects.

Deep understanding of

anti-bot technologies and how to bypass them, fingerprinting, WAFs, JavaScript challenges, etc.

Experience working with

Scrapy ,

Requests ,

httpx ,

Selenium ,

Playwright , or custom headless browser drivers.

Skilled at handling proxies (residential, datacenter, rotating), session management, cookie injection, and TLS tweaking.

Strong debugging skills across browser, HTTP traffic, and device-level interactions.

You think independently and enjoy solving problems no one has solved before.

Familiarity with structured sto

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 NielsenIQ
📍 Madrid