A developer can build a first scraper quickly, but web scraping is a specialist discipline. The important question is not whether your team can build one, but whether that is the best use of its expertise.
Building is the easy part
JavaScript, changing layouts, rate limits, CAPTCHAs and IP blocks make reliable long-term delivery much harder than the initial script.
A costly distraction for developers
Scraper incidents interrupt the same engineers who should be improving the product. Hours spent on proxies, blocked requests and reruns rarely appear in project plans, but accumulate quickly.
Focus on your core business
Recruitment, e-commerce and SaaS companies want to serve customers—not become scraping specialists. Let developers build features customers value and let data specialists operate the scrapers.