Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer – Freelance

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🌐 Philippines, Malaysia, +2 more countries – Remote

🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote 🇲🇾 Malaysia – Remote 🇮🇩 Indonesia – Remote 🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

💵 $30 / hour

⏱ Part Time

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🔙 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

• Handle end-to-end data extraction workflows across complex websites • Ensure complete coverage, accuracy, and reliable delivery of structured datasets • Use tools such as Apify, OpenRouter, and custom workflows for data collection, validation, and task execution • Extract data from dynamic and interactive web sources, including JavaScript-rendered content • Adapt scraping approaches to changing site behavior and structures • 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

🎯 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 using BeautifulSoup, Selenium, or similar • Experience handling dynamic content, including JavaScript, AJAX, and infinite scroll • Experience working with APIs via proxies • Ability to extract data from complex structures, including hierarchies, archived pages, and inconsistent HTML • Experience in data cleaning, normalization, and validation • Ability to deliver structured datasets in CSV, JSON, or Google Sheets • Experience handling anti-bot mechanisms and dynamic site structures at scale • Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or equivalent • Experience with containerization using 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 • GitHub link is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Freelance opportunity • Part-time remote work • Estimated 10–20 hours per week during active project phases • Up to $30 per hour equivalent, depending on level and pace of contribution • Flexible project-based workload (not guaranteed; applies while project is active)