Python Developer (OSINT & AI-Powered Parsing)

We are a global OSINT company headquartered in the US, empowering investigators and security professionals with cutting-edge AI-powered products. Our technology collects and analyzes massive volumes of data from open sources – including social media, messengers, and the dark web – to create a comprehensive picture for data-driven investigations and decision-making.

Our customers include S&P 500 companies and law enforcement agencies in 80+ countries worldwide. Social Links is scaling rapidly, growing 2x annually, with the ambition of becoming a unicorn valued at $1B+.

We are looking for a Python Developer to join our Core team and take ownership of data-collection services that sit at the heart of our platform. You will design, build, and maintain parsers and OSINT pipelines that combine classical scraping techniques with modern LLM-based extraction.

Your Tasks Will Be

• Researching new data sources and designing collection strategies for them
• Developing and supporting parsing services across web, mobile, and API targets
• Reverse-engineering web and mobile applications and their APIs to enable reliable data collection
• Building anti-bot bypass logic and resilient request pipelines
• Using LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) to extract and structure unstructured data
• Performing code review, refactoring, and writing technical documentation
• Owning a defined area of services end-to-end, from research to production

What We’re Looking For

• Python: 3+ years of commercial development, strong OOP fundamentals
• Web frameworks: 2+ years with FastAPI and/or Flask; solid grasp of REST and GraphQL
• Async & background jobs: Celery in production
• Web scraping: Hands-on experience with BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, and Playwright (or similar headless tooling)
• Web & API reverse engineering: Comfortable inspecting web traffic, replaying and reconstructing private API calls
• OSINT: Practical experience applying OSINT methodologies and tools
• Anti-bot bypass: Real-world experience defeating anti-bot and anti-scraping protections
• Networking: Deep understanding of the HTTP protocol; confident with regular expressions
• AI for data extraction: Production experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini) and prompt engineering for extracting and structuring data
• AI-assisted parser development: Practical experience using LLMs to design, write, and accelerate the development of parsers themselves
• Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch); confident with ORMs
• Testing: Pytest, unit and integration testing as a habit
• Russian: Advanced level or higher
• English: B1 or higher

Nice To Haves

• Mobile app reverse engineering experience (Android/iOS traffic interception, deobfuscation, etc.)

• Computer vision experience for image-based data analysis
• Working knowledge of additional languages: Go, PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Docker and Docker Compose in daily workflow
• CI/CD with GitLab CI or GitHub Actions
• Kubernetes for service deployment and orchestration

What We Offer

• Remote-first setup: work from anywhere in the world (excluding Russia and Belarus)
• Ownership of meaningful services from day one and a clear path to grow into a Lead role
• Work on a fast-growing, internationally recognized product used by law enforcement and Fortune 500 companies
• A collaborative team environment where your work has direct, visible impact on the product
• Modern tech stack with active use of LLMs, headless browsers, and reverse-engineering tooling in production

We are an equal-opportunity employer and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all candidates.