Remote Web Scraping Specialist — Async, Flexible Hours

Social Fetch; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Unlimited PTO

Equipment stipend

Learning budget

Health benefits

Job summary

Social Fetch is building a unified REST API from public social data. You’ll own the fetch layer, researching platforms, implementing scrapers, and hardening them for production across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more.

Your role focuses on reliable data extraction, handling anti-bot challenges, and maintaining stable field mappings as platforms evolve. This is a fully remote, async environment with flexible hours and a strong emphasis on collaboration and

Qualifications

• Several years of hands-on web scraping experience.
• Familiarity with anti-bot systems and browser automation.
• Experience parsing messy HTML and JSON data.
• Proficient in TypeScript/JavaScript and production debugging.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scrapers and integrations for major social platforms — profiles, posts, search, media, comments, engagement metrics, and platform‑specific endpoints.
• Diagnose fetch failures: HTTP errors, schema drift, rate limits, bot detection, geo blocks, CAPTCHAs, and responses that look fine but parse to garbage.
• Design fetch strategies that survive bad days — retries with backoff, fallbacks between mobile and web APIs, session handling, proxy rotation when it’s worth the cost.
• Keep normalized API field mappings stable when platforms rename or nest fields differently.
• Write internal notes on platform quirks (auth flows, pagination traps, fields that lie) so the next person doesn’t start from zero.
• Watch production quality signals — error rates, empty fields, latency spikes — and fix regressions before customers open tickets.
• Review support escalations that smell like platform drift, not user error.

Skills

Web scraping experience

Playwright/Puppeteer

HTML/JSON parsing

Production debugging

TypeScript/JavaScript

Independent remote work

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Playwright

Puppeteer

HTTP clients

Proxy rotation

Observability tools

Effect-TS

Job description

Social Fetch is building a unified REST API from public social data. You’ll own the fetch layer, researching platforms, implementing scrapers, and hardening them for production across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more.

Your role focuses on reliable data extraction, handling anti-bot challenges, and maintaining stable field mappings as platforms evolve. This is a fully remote, async environment with flexible hours and a strong emphasis on collaboration and