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# Web Scraping Engineer

- **Company:** Shalion Data Services Limited
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Salary:** €28,000.0 - €35,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Unit Testing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Command-Line Interface, Web Scraping, Data Mining, Monitoring of Systems, Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP), Data Intelligence, DataOps, Selenium, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Web Pages, Puppeteer (Software), Backend, Git, Playwright
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.es/contact-us.html

## About the Role

+ 2+ years of JavaScript/TypeScript experience.
 + Worked on software development projects before.
 + Experience with web scraping or browser automation (Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium).
 + Understanding of DOM, CSS selectors, and web page structure.
 + Knowledge of asynchronous JavaScript and HTTP protocols.
 + Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
 + Experience with Git and command-line tools.
Soft Skills:

 + Resilience: Handle changing website structures
 + Curiosity: Eager to learn new technologies
 + Quality-Focused: Value testing and maintainable code

## Description

Shalion is a data and insights-driven company that serves world-class manufacturers and brands globally. Through our Digital Shelf Optimization, Retail Media, and Food Service Aggregators solutions, we provide innovative tools for e-commerce monitoring.
At Shalion, we empower brands to make smarter business decisions in eCommerce by delivering actionable data and insights on online product prices, availability, share of search, and more. We operate across 1000+ e-retailers in 60+ countries, serving industry giants such as Heineken, Lego, Danone, Nestlé, and JDE.
As a leader in data intelligence, we specialize in gathering, analyzing, and applying proprietary artificial intelligence to deliver relevant data and monitoring tools, helping our clients maximize their e-commerce performance., As a Web Scraping Engineer at Shalion, your responsibilities include:

 + Develop and maintain standardised libraries for our scraping tools using TypeScript.
 + Create reusable components for data extraction across multiple retailers (ie, an abstract layer for Playwright and Puppeteer).
 + Build error handling and retry mechanisms for scraping operations.
 + Write unit-testing and performance tools to avoid backward compatibility issues and speed up/optimize our current flows.
 + Understand the scraping universe and collaborate into improving the tools and components for it.
 + Collaborate with Data Operations and Backend teams.


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