Scraper Developer (Online Brand Protection)

Anaqua is looking for a Scraper Developer to join our Online Brand Protection team, maintaining and expanding web scraping systems across marketplaces, websites, domain registries, and social media platforms. In this hands-on role, you will build resilient scrapers that overcome anti-bot defenses while delivering clean, reliable data to developers, data scientists, and analysts. You will work within a Python-based stack, reporting to the Technical Lead.

You'll Love This Job if You Like To:

• Maintain and enhance existing scrapers across marketplaces, websites, webshops, domain and WHOIS sources, and social media platforms.
• Build new scrapers for uncovered sources, from initial site analysis to full production deployment.
• Ensure scraper reliability against anti-bot defenses using rotating proxies, browser fingerprinting, request pacing, and header/cookie management.
• Monitor scraper health, diagnose failures, and quickly resolve breakages due to site changes.
• Structure and store collected data effectively so downstream pipelines receive clean, well-organized data.
• Run scrapers at scale using scheduling and orchestration tools, with proper retry mechanisms and queue management.
• Package and deploy scrapers in a containerized, version-controlled environment.
• Write clean, maintainable code and document scrapers so they are easy to run, debug, and extend by others.

What You'll Need To Be Successful:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in web scraping or a similar domain.
• Strong Python experience, including real-world application of Playwright alongside Selenium.
• Hands-on experience scraping at scale against sites with active anti-scraping mechanisms, including marketplaces and social media platforms.
• Experience managing proxies, request headers, cookies, and browser fingerprinting libraries against anti-bot defenses.
• Experience with CAPTCHA-solving approaches and reverse-engineering mobile or web APIs.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, HTML, DOM, browser developer tools, and modern data-loading techniques (XHR, fetch, dynamic rendering).
• Experience working with Google Cloud, virtual machines, and containerized environments such as Docker.
• Proficiency with Git; exposure to Java or TypeScript beneficial as the platform evolves.

Anaqua, Inc. is a premium provider of integrated intellectual property (IP) management technology solutions and services. Anaqua’s AQX platform combines best practice workflows with big data analytics and tech-enabled services to create an intelligent environment designed to inform IP strategy, enable IP decision-making, and streamline IP operations. Today, nearly half of the top 100 U.S. patent filers and global brands, as well as a growing number of law firms worldwide use Anaqua’s solutions. Over one million IP executives, attorneys, paralegals, administrators, and innovators in large and medium-sized companies use the platform for their IP management needs. The company’s global operations are headquartered in Boston, with offices across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia. For additional information, please visit anaqua.com, or on LinkedIn.