Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer, Freelance

🔥 36 minutes ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – 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 • Deliver complete, accurate, and reliable 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, including JavaScript-rendered content • Adapt scraping approaches to changing site behavior and minor site structure changes • 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 scraping stability

🎯 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 (JS, AJAX, infinite scroll), and APIs via proxies • Proven 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) in real workflows • 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 and 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 remote work • Estimated 10–20 hours per week during active project phases • Up to $45 per hour equivalent, depending on level and pace of contribution