Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer
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Senior Python engineer building reliable web-scraping and data-validation workflows for Mindrift’s AI technology projects. Handling dynamic sites, anti-bot mechanisms, cloud infrastructure, and LLM automation tools.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end data extraction workflows across complex websites
- Ensure complete coverage, accuracy, and reliable delivery of structured datasets
- Use available tools and custom workflows to accelerate data collection, validation, and task execution
- Extract data reliably from dynamic and interactive web sources, including JavaScript-rendered content
- Adapt scraping approaches to changing site behavior
- Enforce data quality through validation checks, cross-source consistency controls, formatting specifications, and systematic verification
- Scale scraping operations for large datasets using efficient batching or parallelization
- Monitor failures and maintain stability against minor site structure changes
- Apply tools such as Apify, OpenRouter, and other technologies to scraping and processing workflows
Requirements:
- At least 5+ years of relevant experience in data engineering, web scraping, automation, or software development
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related technical fields is a plus
- Strong technical foundation and practical experience with scripting, automation, and data extraction workflows
- Strong experience in Python web scraping, including BeautifulSoup, Selenium or similar, dynamic content, and APIs via proxies
- Ability to extract data from complex structures such as hierarchies, archived pages, and inconsistent HTML
- Solid background in data cleaning, normalization, and validation
- Demonstrated experience handling anti-bot mechanisms and dynamic site structures at scale
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or equivalent and containerization with Docker
- Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks such as LangChain, OpenRouter, or similar applied to automation tasks
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy
- Self-directed work ethic and ability to troubleshoot independently
- English proficiency at Upper-intermediate (B2) or above
- A link to GitHub is a plus
Benefits:
- Freelance opportunity
- Part-time remote work
- Estimated 10–20 hours per week during active project phases
- Compensation up to $25 per hour equivalent, depending on level and pace of contribution
- Opportunity to contribute to innovative technology and AI development projects




