Lead Software Engineer

Company Description

At Scrapingdog, we make web scraping easy for everyone. Our suite of APIs handles millions of proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs to provide users with HTML of any web page in a single API call. Designed to be fast and simple to use, our tools help businesses collect data for leads, pricing, research, and more, ensuring growth and efficiency. We build strong partnerships with our clients to help them grow faster and achieve success.

Role & responsibilities

• Work directly with customers

  to troubleshoot issues, provide solutions, and guide them in using our APIs effectively, ensuring they see value quickly and smoothly convert into paid customers.

• Design, build, and maintain

  Scrapingdog’s API layer (Node.js, Express).

• Optimize and scale

  our MongoDB-backed data models for speed and reliability.

• Implement

  job queues, caching layers, and credit metering logic.

• Develop CI/CD pipelines

  for automated deployments.

• Deploy and manage services

  on DigitalOcean droplets.

• Improve monitoring, observability, and fault tolerance

  across our stack.

• Collaborate

  with infra, browser, and product teams to bring new features to life.

• Evolve our architecture

  to support 10x more scale and usage.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building production-grade backend systems.
• Strong expertise in

  Node.js, Express, and MongoDB

  .
• Comfortable designing APIs and working across multiple services.
• Familiarity with

  Redis, job queues, rate limiting, and background task processing

  .
• A problem solver who enjoys working

  autonomously

  and driving projects end-to-end.
• Pragmatic, fast-moving, and motivated to work on a

  large-scale system

  .
• Excellent communication skills to

  interact with customers

  and translate technical solutions into clear guidance.
• Hands-on experience with

  automation tools like n8n or similar platforms

  .

What you get

• Opportunity to work on a high-traffic SaaS product used by 10,000+ developers
• Work directly with the founding team
• Flexible work environment
• Performance-based bonuses