Data Crawling - Consultant

Rubick; Oregon (WI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home - Monday to Saturday

Job summary

Rubick is seeking a data crawling engineer to build and maintain its data acquisition engine for extracting, validating, and structuring product information from eCommerce sites. This role powers Product Discovery, Search, Catalog Intelligence, and Market Intelligence platforms.

You will develop scalable crawlers using Python and frameworks like BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium, and Playwright, focusing on AI-assisted extraction, data validation, and high-quality data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python for web scraping and automation.
• Hands-on experience with HTML/CSS and DOM structures.
• Experience with data validation, cleaning, and structuring of datasets.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted data extraction and ML data pipelines is a plus.
• Able to handle large datasets while maintaining data quality.
• Experience in eCommerce, retail, or marketplace data is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize web crawlers to extract product data from eCommerce sites.
• Collect structured and unstructured product information including details, pricing, images, specs, and availability.
• Clean, validate, and organize extracted datasets for accuracy and consistency.
• Monitor crawler performance and resolve extraction issues.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to ensure timely data collection.
• Maintain documentation for crawling processes, extraction rules, and data quality standards.
• Leverage AI-powered extraction techniques to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Build intelligent crawling workflows using Python and modern web automation frameworks.
• Implement automated data validation and monitoring systems for high-quality datasets.
• Collaborate with AI/Data Engineering teams to support ML models and Product Intelligence systems.
• Continuously optimize crawling performance for speed, scalability, and reliability.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive extraction and validation workflows.
• Improve data collection strategies by adopting new crawling technologies and AI-assisted solutions.
• Build reusable crawling frameworks and standardized extraction pipelines.
• Contribute to knowledge repositories and process improvements across data acquisition.

Skills

Python for scraping

HTML/CSS/DOM

Data quality & validation

Analytical thinking

Large datasets

E-commerce domain knowledge

AI-assisted extraction exposure

Tools

BeautifulSoup

Scrapy

Selenium

Playwright

Job description

You will be responsible for building and maintaining Rubick's data acquisition engine by extracting, validating, and structuring product information from eCommerce websites and marketplaces. This role focuses on developing scalable web crawling solutions that power Product Discovery, Search, Catalog Intelligence, and Market Intelligence platforms.

The role involves three areas: Part 1: The Fundamentals | Part 2: AI-Driven Data Crawling Excellence | Part 3: Innovation & Improvements

Part 1: The Fundamentals

• Develop, maintain, and optimize web crawlers to extract product data from eCommerce websites and marketplaces.
• Collect structured and unstructured product information, including product details, pricing, images, specifications, and availability.
• Clean, validate, and organize extracted datasets to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Monitor crawler performance, identify failures, and resolve data extraction issues.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to ensure reliable and timely data collection.
• Maintain documentation for crawling processes, extraction rules, and data quality standards.

Part 2: AI-Driven Data Crawling Excellence

• Leverage AI-powered extraction techniques to improve data accuracy and extraction efficiency.
• Build intelligent crawling workflows using Python and modern web automation frameworks.
• Implement automated data validation and monitoring systems to maintain high-quality datasets.
• Collaborate with AI and Data Engineering teams to support Machine Learning models and Product Intelligence systems.
• Continuously optimize crawling performance for speed, scalability, and reliability.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive extraction and validation workflows.
• Improve data collection strategies by adopting new crawling technologies and AI-assisted solutions.
• Build reusable crawling frameworks and standardized extraction pipelines.
• Contribute to knowledge repositories, documentation, and process improvements across the data acquisition function.

To Have

• 1+ year of experience in Web Crawling, Data Scraping, Product Matching, Data Extraction, or similar roles.
• Strong proficiency in Python for web scraping and automation.
• Hands‑on experience with BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium, Playwright, or similar frameworks.
• Good understanding of HTML, CSS, XPath, JSON, and DOM structures.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work with large datasets while maintaining high data quality.
• Experience in eCommerce, Retail, Marketplace Operations, or Catalog Management is preferred.
• Exposure to AI-assisted data extraction, Product Intelligence, or Machine Learning data pipelines is a strong advantage.

About Rubick : Company Overview

Rubick OS is a leading platform for brands and marketplaces, enabling seamless management of catalog automation, pricing and competitive intelligence, product listing intelligence, CAST systems, and brand and assortment intelligence.

Our solutions are used across five countries by major brands and marketplaces, including Amazon, Myntra, Reliance Group, Nykaa, Flipkart, Rare Rabbit, Decathlon, Celio, The Bay, Kiabi, Myer, Jumbo, and many more.

Work Model

Work from home - Monday to Saturday

Team Size

250+ Employees

Investors

Invested by Innospark US, Betatron Hong Kong, MJV India, 1Crowd India , and other investors.

Rubick.ai is a place to work if you want to build something foundational rather than incremental—it’s aiming to become the AI operating layer for ecommerce, solving complex, real-world problems across cataloging, pricing, and marketplace operations at scale.

You get high ownership, direct impact, and exposure to various parts of the business, making you an entrepreneur in-house. Rubick operates in the AI segment, which means you will be at the forefront of the technological revolution.

Rubick is profitable and growing and is looking to work with 10,000 brands in the next 2-3 years .