Automation Engineer: AI-Driven Web Scraping

87seconds Group; Cebu City; Hybrid; PHP 600,000 - 960,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid setup

Health insurance

Training & development

Leave benefits

Job summary

Datawords Philippines is hiring an Automation Engineer to join our cross‑functional development team in a hybrid Cebu/Makati setup. You will build, maintain, and optimize web scraping and automation workflows using Python, Playwright, Selenium, and related tools.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering and hands‑on experience in automation, web scraping, and modern web technologies (HTML/CSS, JavaScript).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related field.
• Experience in Selenium automation, Playwright and web scraping.
• Knowledge of Python, PHP, JavaScript, or similar languages.
• Understanding of HTML, CSS and dynamic web elements.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize web scraping and automation solutions using Python tools (Playwright, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Pandas).
• Build scalable scraping systems for retailer/product monitoring with high data accuracy.
• Extract, validate, and monitor product data including automated screenshots across pages.
• Design, integrate, and maintain APIs, webhooks, and third‑party services to support data workflows.
• Develop backend services using PHP and front‑end interfaces with Vue.js/React.js.
• Document processes and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to improve automation efficiency.

Skills

Python

Selenium automation

Web scraping

JavaScript

HTML/CSS

Problem solving

Team player

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

BeautifulSoup

Pandas

Git

Job description

Datawords Philippines is hiring an Automation Engineer to join our cross‑functional development team in a hybrid Cebu/Makati setup. You will build, maintain, and optimize web scraping and automation workflows using Python, Playwright, Selenium, and related tools.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering and hands‑on experience in automation, web scraping, and modern web technologies (HTML/CSS, JavaScript).