Software Engineer III

About this role

Babel Street seeks a Software Engineer III to architect and maintain advanced automated data extraction systems that harvest business intelligence from complex web environments while circumventing anti-bot security measures. This role ensures reliable, high-quality data flow into internal databases and is based in Reston, VA or Somerville, MA with remote work potential.

What you'll do

• Design and develop automated web scraping systems (spiders) for extracting critical business intelligence
• Overcome technical barriers and sophisticated anti-bot security measures
• Maintain continuous, reliable flow of high-quality data into internal databases
• Ensure end-to-end responsibility for data extraction solutions
• Architect scalable solutions for complex web environments
• Monitor and troubleshoot extraction system performance

What they're looking for

• Web scraping and data extraction
• Python or similar programming languages
• Handling anti-bot security systems
• Database integration
• System architecture and design
• Automated testing
• Problem-solving in complex technical environments
• Data quality assurance