Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer – Freelance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of comprehensive data extraction processes across intricate websites.

• Guarantee thorough coverage, precision, and consistent delivery of structured datasets.

• Utilize tools and tailored workflows to expedite data gathering, validation, and task execution.

• Reliably extract data from dynamic and interactive web sources, including content rendered by JavaScript.

• Modify scraping techniques in response to evolving site behaviors and structures.

• Uphold data quality through validation checks, cross-source consistency controls, formatting standards, and systematic verification.

• Enhance scraping operations for large datasets using effective batching or parallelization.

• Monitor errors and ensure stability against minor changes in site structure.

• Collaborate with Tendem Agents that manage repetitive tasks within Mindrift’s hybrid AI and human system.

• Employ tools like Apify, OpenRouter, and other technologies along with technical expertise.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in data engineering, web scraping, automation, or software development (required).

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related technical fields is advantageous.

• Extensive experience in Python web scraping, including BeautifulSoup, Selenium or similar, dynamic content handling, and APIs via proxies.

• Proven capability to extract data from complex structures such as hierarchies, archived pages, and inconsistent HTML.

• Strong foundation in data cleaning, normalization, and validation, producing structured datasets in CSV, JSON, and Google Sheets.

• Demonstrated experience in managing anti-bot mechanisms and dynamic site structures at scale.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or equivalent and containerization using Docker.

• Practical experience with LLM frameworks such as LangChain, OpenRouter, or similar applied to automation tasks.

• Keen attention to detail and dedication to data accuracy.

• Self-driven work ethic with the ability to troubleshoot independently.

• Proficiency in English: Upper-intermediate (B2) or higher (required).

• GitHub link is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Freelance opportunity.

• Part-time workload estimated at 10–20 hours per week during active project phases.

• Access to innovative technology projects through the Mindrift platform.