Web Data Extraction Engineer: Crawlers, Pipelines & Automation

Unosquare, Inc.; Colombia; On-site; COP 189,855,000 - 284,783,000; Full time

Job summary

Unosquare, Inc. is seeking a Web Data Extraction Engineer to build and maintain reliable crawlers and scrapers for clients in the tech industry.

You’ll design extraction pipelines turning dynamic websites into clean, structured data and ensure data flow remains when sites change. Ideal candidates have 3+ years in software engineering or data extraction, strong HTML/CSS/DOM skills, and professional English for client communication.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in software engineering, test automation or data extraction.
• Strong HTTP, HTML/CSS/DOM, XPath and CSS selectors.
• Professional English for direct client communication.
• Bonus: Distributed crawling (Scrapy Cluster, Celery, Kafka), Docker, AWS/GCP, Postgres/MongoDB/S3, scraping compliance.

Responsibilities

• Extract and normalize data from HTML, the DOM and APIs found through network inspection
• Handle rate limiting, fingerprinting and CAPTCHA challenges responsibly
• Monitor scrapers and fix breakages fast

Skills

HTML/CSS/DOM

XPath/CSS selectors

HTTP

Data extraction

English communication

Tools

Scrapy Cluster

Celery

Kafka

Docker

AWS

GCP

Postgres

MongoDB

S3

Job description

Unosquare, Inc. is seeking a Web Data Extraction Engineer to build and maintain reliable crawlers and scrapers for clients in the tech industry.

You’ll design extraction pipelines turning dynamic websites into clean, structured data and ensure data flow remains when sites change. Ideal candidates have 3+ years in software engineering or data extraction, strong HTML/CSS/DOM skills, and professional English for client communication.