Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer – Freelance

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🌐 Saudi Arabia, Qatar, +4 more countries – Remote

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💵 $37 / 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

• Join Mindrift’s Tendem project to drive specialized data scraping workflows for real-world applications • Own end-to-end data extraction workflows across complex websites • Deliver complete, accurate, reliable, and structured datasets • Use tools such as Apify, OpenRouter, and custom workflows to accelerate data collection, validation, and task execution • Extract data 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 compliance, and systematic verification • Scale scraping operations for large datasets using efficient batching or parallelization • Monitor failures and maintain stability against minor site structure changes • Work independently on non-trivial scripting, automation, data extraction, structuring, and validation problems

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5+ years of relevant experience in data engineering, web scraping, automation, or software development • English proficiency at Upper-intermediate (B2) or above • Strong experience in Python web scraping, including BeautifulSoup, Selenium or similar, dynamic content (JS, AJAX, infinite scroll), and APIs via proxies • Ability to extract data from complex structures, including 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 • 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 • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related technical fields is a plus • A link to GitHub is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible part-time freelance opportunity • Estimated workload of 10–20 hours per week during active project phases • Compensation up to $37 per hour equivalent, depending on level and pace of contribution • Opportunity to work on innovative technology and AI development projects • Remote work