Remote Senior Web Data Acquisition Engineer (Resilient Crawling) @ ZEN.COM

ZEN.COM; Remote; PLN 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology company is seeking talent to work on AI-driven applications that enhance pricing and availability intelligence. Join an energetic and collaborative team that values autonomy. You will work on scraping and data handling challenges, creating resilient parsers, and optimizing traffic management. This role offers hands-on experience with production AI technologies and the chance to have a significant impact on product development.

Benefits

High autonomy

Learning opportunities in AI

Collaborative team environment

Qualifications

• Experience with scraping frameworks and handling non-JS content.
• Ability to emulate human-like behavior in scripts.
• Knowledge of creating and consuming REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement resilient parsers for various layouts.
• Monitor and alert on scraping challenges; implement retry/backoff strategies.
• Collaborate with a team to optimize traffic management.

Skills

AI development

Python

Java

REST APIs

Job description

ZEN. COM is a smart financial app designed for your everyday life – at home and on the go. We make payments, online shopping, and personal finance management fast, secure, and effortless. With ZEN, you can enjoy cashback on purchases, full control over your spending, and peace of mind thanks to purchase protection. A built-in multi-currency account lets you spend abroad or shop internationally with great exchange rates and no hidden fees.

The Opportunity

We operate with a startup mindset: small, senior, fast-moving. The team is energetic, collaborative, and pragmatic. We useAI at multiple layers (change detection, parser generation, anomaly detection, agentic ops)—you’ll both use and shape these production‑ready applications and learn a lot along the way.

Why Join Us

• Impact:Your work becomes the backbone of pricing & availability intelligence used across products and markets.
• Learning:Hands‑on withproduction AI(LLMs, embeddings, agents) and modern data engineering.
• Team:Talented, supportive peers; high autonomy and ownership; clear problem statements.
• Pace & Pragmatism: We ship, measure, and improve.
• Practical experience handlingrate limits/challengesand building systems that degrade gracefully.
• Solid grounding indata quality: normalization, validation, deduplication, and schema/versioning.

TL;DR Checklist:

• [ ] ScrapeJS& non-JS (headless, VMs)
• [ ] Emulate human like behavior (proxies, rate, CAPTCHA, fingerprints)
• [ ] Parsers resilient to layout changes
• [ ] Monitor & alert on blocks/errors; retry/backoff
• [ ] PythonorJava/Kotlin
• [ ] REST APIs creation and consumption

Nice to Have

• Multi‑region traffic management and cost optimization.

About ZEN. COM

ZEN. COM is a smart financial app designed for your everyday life – at home and on the go. We make payments, online shopping, and personal finance management fast, secure, and effortless. With ZEN, you can enjoy cashback on purchases, full control over your spending, and peace of mind thanks to purchase protection. A built-in multi-currency account lets you spend abroad or shop internationally with great exchange rates and no hidden fees.

The Opportunity

We operate with a startup mindset: small, senior, fast-moving. The team is energetic, collaborative, and pragmatic. We useAI at multiple layers (change detection, parser generation, anomaly detection, agentic ops)—you’ll both use and shape these production‑ready applications and learn a lot along the way.

Why Join Us

• Impact:Your work becomes the backbone of pricing & availability intelligence used across products and markets.
• Learning:Hands‑on withproduction AI(LLMs, embeddings, agents) and modern data engineering.
• Team:Talented, supportive peers; high autonomy and ownership; clear problem statements.
• Pace & Pragmatism: We ship, measure, and improve.