Web Scraping Specialist

SEON is the leading fraud prevention system of record, catching fraud before it happens at any point across the customer journey. Trusted by over 5,000 global companies, we combine your company’s data with our proprietary real-time signals to deliver actionable fraud insights tailored to your business outcomes. We deliver the fastest time to value in the market through a single API call, enabling quick and seamless onboarding and integration. By analyzing billions of transactions, we’ve prevented $200 billion in fraudulent activities, showcasing why the world’s most innovative companies choose SEON.

As a Web Scraping Specialist  at SEON, you will play a key role in building and evolving the systems that power SEON’s real-time data collection engine. You’ll develop and maintain scalable, resilient scraper infrastructure. Your work will directly support SEON’s fraud prevention capabilities, enabling robust data gathering across hundreds of platforms. You’ll collaborate closely with fellow engineers, product teams, and infrastructure specialists to deliver resilient, high-performance scraping solutions. This role reports into the Team Lead of Data Enrichment Crawler Team.

This role offers flexibility and is based in our Budapest office with a hybrid schedule of being in the office approximately three days per week.

What You'll Do :

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, multithreaded scraping and crawling services, primarily in Java, with contributions to Python-based systems as part of an ongoing architecture shift.
• Improve throughput, resiliency, and performance of scraping infrastructure, including proxy management, connection handling, and fault tolerance.
• Contribute to the design of scraping components and APIs that power SEON’s data ingestion pipeline.
• Refactor and modernize existing scrapers, identify bottlenecks, and reduce technical debt.
• Enhance test coverage, observability, and maintainability of core components.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering peers to scope, refine, and deliver features aligned with business goals.
• Support and review pull requests from peers, share knowledge across the team, and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Analyze team metrics (latency, reliability, system cost) and suggest actionable improvements.
• Contribute to technical planning and support others during the full SDLC, from design to deployment.

What You Bring :

Amazing if You Also Have :