Remote Data Engineer: Web Scraping & Data Pipelines

Alternative Path Private Limited; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Alternative Path is seeking skilled software developers for remote collaboration on client projects in the asset management space. You will build and maintain web scrapers, clean and transform data with Python and Pandas, and ingest results into a data warehouse.

You’ll work with cross-functional teams and take ownership of solutions, while enjoying a high degree of autonomy within a team-first environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field.
• 2–4 years of software development experience.
• Strong Python and SQL/Database skills.
• Strong Pandas library experience is essential.
• Experience with web technologies (HTML/JS, APIs, etc.).
• Proven ability to work with large data sets for cleaning and transformation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with scraping tools and data infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with analysts to understand requirements.
• Design and maintain web scrapers for diverse datasets.
• Perform data cleaning, exploration, and transformation on scraped data.
• Work with cross-functional teams to implement data processing workflows.
• Author QC checks to validate data availability and integrity.
• Maintain alerting systems and respond to data incidents.
• Design and build tools to enhance the web scraping platform.

Skills

Python

SQL

Pandas

HTML/JS APIs

Data cleaning

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Alternative Path is seeking skilled software developers for remote collaboration on client projects in the asset management space. You will build and maintain web scrapers, clean and transform data with Python and Pandas, and ingest results into a data warehouse.

You’ll work with cross-functional teams and take ownership of solutions, while enjoying a high degree of autonomy within a team-first environment.