Web Data Extraction Engineer (Scraping & Automation

unosquare; 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

Opportunity alert: Web Data Extraction Engineer (Scraping & Automation) at Unosquare!

We’re growing our team. We’re looking for a Web Data Extraction Engineer to build and maintain reliable, scalable crawlers and scrapers for clients in the tech industry.

In this role, you’ll design extraction pipelines that turn complex, dynamic websites into clean, structured data that clients rely on. When target sites change, you’ll be the one who spots the breakage and gets the data flowing again, quickly and responsibly, in line with site terms and applicable law.

What you’ll do:

• 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

What we’re looking for:

• 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

If you enjoy technical puzzles and building systems that keep working as the web changes, we’d love to meet you.