Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer – Freelance

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $45 / hour

⏱ Part Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Mindrift

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501 - 1000 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏪 Marketplace

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • Marketplace • SaaS

Mindrift is a platform that connects skilled professional contributors and domain experts with AI training and evaluation projects run by leading technology companies. Part of Toloka, Mindrift recruits and vets freelancers—writers, editors, QA specialists, scientists, and subject-matter experts—to generate data, test model safety and reasoning, evaluate media quality, and build real-world scenarios that improve AI performance and reliability. It operates as a talent marketplace and platform for on-demand AI training, onboarding contributors through assessments and identity verification and offering flexible, paid project work.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end data extraction workflows across complex websites • Ensure complete coverage, accuracy, and reliable delivery of structured datasets • Use tools and custom workflows to accelerate data collection, validation, and task execution • Extract data reliably from dynamic and interactive web sources, adapting to JavaScript-rendered content and 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 web scraping, data extraction, and data processing expertise to the Tendem project • Work with tools including Apify, OpenRouter, and other technologies

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5+ years of relevant experience in data engineering, web scraping, automation, or software development • Strong experience in Python web scraping, including BeautifulSoup, Selenium or similar, dynamic content, and APIs via proxies • Proven ability to extract data from complex structures such as hierarchies, archived pages, and inconsistent HTML • Solid background in data cleaning, normalization, and validation, delivering structured datasets in CSV, JSON, or Google Sheets • Demonstrated experience handling anti-bot mechanisms and dynamic site structures at scale • Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure and Docker containerization • Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks such as LangChain or OpenRouter applied to automation tasks • Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy • Self-directed work ethic with ability to troubleshoot independently • English proficiency at Upper-intermediate (B2) or above • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related technical fields is a plus • GitHub link is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Freelance opportunity • Part-time schedule estimated at 10–20 hours per week during active project phases • Flexible workload based on project requirements