Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer – Freelance

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🌐 Sweden, Denmark, +4 more countries – Remote

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💵 $45 / 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 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 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 Python web scraping, data extraction, processing, automation, and LLM tools within the Tendem project • Work independently to solve non-trivial problems and troubleshoot technical issues

🎯 Requirements

• At least 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 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 (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, delivering structured datasets in CSV, JSON, or Google Sheets • Demonstrated experience handling anti-bot mechanisms and dynamic site structures at scale • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent) and containerization (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: Upper-intermediate (B2) or above (required)

🏖️ Benefits

• Part-time remote freelance opportunity • Estimated workload of 10–20 hours per week during active phases (not guaranteed) • Compensation up to $45 per hour equivalent, depending on level and pace of contribution