Remote Python Data Scraping Engineer (Freelance)

Mindrift; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,017,000 - 1,696,000; Part time

Job summary

Mindrift is seeking a Python Data Scraping Engineer for the Tendem project. This part-time remote freelance role focuses on web extraction, data processing, and delivering high-quality structured datasets across diverse sources.

You will apply expertise in web scraping, data extraction, and processing using tools like Apify and OpenRouter, with attention to data accuracy and scalability. Remote work offers flexible hours and project-based workload.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in data engineering, web scraping, automation, or software development.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related technical fields is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data extraction workflows across complex websites, ensuring complete coverage, accuracy, and reliable delivery of structured datasets.
• Leverage available tools and custom workflows to accelerate data collection, validation, and task execution while meeting defined requirements.
• Ensure reliable extraction from dynamic and interactive web sources, adapting approaches as needed to handle JavaScript-rendered content and changing site behavior.
• Enforce data quality standards through validation checks, cross-source consistency controls, adherence to formatting specifications, and systematic verification prior to delivery.
• Scale scraping operations for large datasets using efficient batching or parallelization, monitor failures, and maintain stability against minor site structure changes.

Skills

Python web scraping

Dynamic content handling

Data validation

Data cleaning

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Engineering/CS or related

Tools

BeautifulSoup

Selenium

APIs via proxies

Job description

Mindrift is seeking a Python Data Scraping Engineer for the Tendem project. This part-time remote freelance role focuses on web extraction, data processing, and delivering high-quality structured datasets across diverse sources.

You will apply expertise in web scraping, data extraction, and processing using tools like Apify and OpenRouter, with attention to data accuracy and scalability. Remote work offers flexible hours and project-based workload.