Software Engineer - Tier2 (Hybrid/Athens)
Core
Design high-performance web crawlers and optimize large-scale data pipelines to extract real-time pricing, stock, and product data for global retail and e-commerce brands.
Role type
Senior IC PHP backend engineer (web scraping & data infrastructure)
Builds
Smart web crawlers, data extraction parsers, and high-scale data pipelines
Domain
RetailTech / E-commerce / Data Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
PHP (OOP v7/v8), headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright), SQL, Linux, Git
Preferred skills
Scrapy, Selenium, rotating proxies, IP management, message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka), diagnostics scripting
Responsibilities
Build and maintain smart web crawlers, write and fine-tune parsers for real-time data extraction, tackle anti-bot systems, keep crawlers healthy and accurate, collaborate with DevOps to deliver stable pipelines, review code and mentor junior teammates
