Associate Software Engineer – Web Scraping

Seon, Budapest

The role

As an Associate Software Engineer on our web scraping team, you will work on the real-time scraping platform behind SEON's data enrichment products. Our enrichment APIs answer questions about an email address, phone number or IP in real time, which means our data collection runs on the live request path, under a tight latency budget, against a large and constantly changing set of public sources.

This is a role for someone early in their career who wants to go deep on a hard technical problem. You will own real scrapers in production, with a senior engineer as a mentor and structured code review as a default.

What you need

Around 1–2 years of professional software engineering experience, or a strong portfolio of internships, personal projects or open-source work. Solid Python matters most.
Some hands-on exposure to web scraping or automated data collection, even if it was coursework or a side project.
Working understanding of HTTP and networking fundamentals: requests and responses, headers, status codes, TLS at a conceptual level, what a proxy does.
Comfort writing tests and working in a code-review culture with Git.
Basic comfort with Docker; willingness to learn Kubernetes on the job.
Regular use of at least one AI coding assistant, and curiosity about getting more out of it.
The habit of reading release notes, docs and engineering blogs for the languages and frameworks you use, and asking about unfamiliar patterns rather than copying them blindly.
Realistic self-assessment on timelines: you check with teammates before committing to a deadline, and you raise blockers with context rather than just flagging that you're stuck.
Ownership of the outcome rather than the ticket, and a habit of surfacing problems and mistakes early.
Willingness to argue for the customer's perspective when the technically convenient option would degrade the product.
Openness to picking up Java/Spring, which is where the platform is heading.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, adapted to the audience; fluent in English.

Amazing if You Also Have

Any exposure to scraping or browser automation tooling: Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, Scrapy, or low-level HTTP clients.
Any exposure to cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS) or infrastructure as code.
Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana or InfluxDB.
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, especially GitHub Actions.
Any experience with Elasticsearch, Redis or DynamoDB.
Interest in fraud prevention, trust and safety, or another domain where data freshness is a product requirement.

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Associate Software Engineer – Web Scraping

The role

Associate Software Engineer – Web Scraping

The role

What you will do

What you need

Amazing if You Also Have

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