Duties and Responsibilities
- Design, write, and maintain high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code in accordance with team standards and best practices
- The development and long-term maintenance of web crawlers and scrapers — this will be the primary and strategic focus of the role
- Analyze, optimize, and significantly improve existing functionality with an eye toward performance, scalability, and reliability
- Drive technical decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and introduce new technologies and approaches when appropriate
- Solve complex, non-standard problems and take a proactive role in defining robust technical solutions
- Collaborate closely with other engineers, share expertise, and contribute to improving overall engineering quality
Skills and Experience
- 7+ years of professional software development experience, including work on complex production systems
- Deep understanding of modern software development principles, architectural patterns, and best practices
- Strong, hands-on experience with PHP (3+ years), including performance optimization and debugging
- Proven experience building and maintaining production-grade web crawlers, scrapers, and parsers (HTML parsing, HTTP protocol internals, and ‘polite’ scraping principles: understanding real-user behavior and smart navigation, deep knowledge of what is perceived as aggressive bot crawling behavior by sites/Cloudflare-like firewalls to avoid this behavior and being efficient in getting data at the same time)
- Experience containerizing and deploying applications using Docker
- Linux background and confidence writing and maintaining scripts in Linux environments
- Strong feedback skills and the ability to contribute constructively to code reviews.
- Ability to work effectively with incomplete or ambiguous requirements.
- Proactivity: The ability to foresee and mitigate potential issues before they escalate into incidents.
Nice to Have
- Experience designing or working with high-load systems and large-scale data processing
- Experience with Kubernetes (k8s) in production environments
- Python skills (used for tooling, data processing, or scraping)
- Experience with TypeScript
- Familiarity with Redis
- Experience working with the Symfony framework
- Hands-on experience with browser automation libraries: Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium and others
What we offer
- 22 days of paid time off, plus your local national holidays
- Flexible work hours and a culture that trusts you to manage your time
- Private medical insurance or a medical allowance (depending on your location)
- Extended paid sick leave so you can fully recover without worry
- Career map with growth opportunities
- Support for wellbeing and L&D
- Best hardware for your work (team Apple)
- An award-winning product loved by thousands of customers worldwide
- A transparent, flexible culture with people at the core of everything we do
- Events that are actually fun
About SE Ranking:
SE Ranking is the company behind powerful and intuitive products that helps businesses grow and manage their online visibility across search, social, and AI-powered environments. SE Ranking is trusted by over a million businesses, agencies, and SEO professionals since 2013.
The software began as an instrument for monitoring and reporting on web page rankings and grew into a completely integrated SEO platform with over 30 tools that provide reliable data with clear insights for every step of the SEO process and allow the crafting of complex SEO strategies. SE Ranking is currently expanding its portfolio with the development of two additional products in the fields of SMM and AI-driven Search.
The SE Ranking workplace comprises 250+ talents from all over the globe. As a remote-first company, we strive to offer every team member a proper work-life balance. We take care of our employees’ physical and mental health by providing them with the relevant benefits. We value curiosity, creativity, dedication to life-long learning, transparent internal communication, and constructive feedback. To help every team member thrive and reach their full potential, we nurture a dynamic and supportive work environment that sparks growth.