Middle Backend Engineer (Node.js)

This role involves becoming a core member of a newly formed development team. The candidate contributes to building a cutting-edge, scalable browser automation scraper and reverse-engineer web protocols and bypass anti-scraping mechanisms (CAPTCHAs, rate limits, fingerprinting). Responsibilities include optimizing scraping infrastructure for speed, reliability, and stealth. The candidate also contributes to the development of microservices APIs, and other backend systems when scraping tasks are not a priority. The role entails developing high-performance scrapers using tools like Playwright, implementing proxy rotation, request throttling, and CAPTCHA-solving strategies. Continuously monitor and adapt to evolving website structures and defenses. The candidate ensures data accuracy and compliance with legal/ethical scraping practices. They build and maintain scalable microservices and APIs using modern backend frameworks, collaborate on frontend development using Vue.js when needed and share knowledge with teammates on best practices for scraping and backend development.