22 hours ago
Remote, Italy +5 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end data extraction workflows across complex websites and deliver complete, accurate, structured datasets.
- Use custom workflows and available tools to accelerate data collection, validation, and task execution.
- Extract data from JavaScript-rendered and interactive sources, adapting to changing site behavior.
- Apply data-quality checks, cross-source consistency controls, formatting requirements, and systematic verification.
- Scale scraping for large datasets using batching or parallelization, monitor failures, and maintain stability against site changes.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in data engineering, web scraping, automation, or software development.
- Strong Python web-scraping experience with tools such as BeautifulSoup and Selenium, including dynamic content, APIs, proxies, JavaScript, AJAX, and infinite scroll.
- Experience extracting data from complex structures such as hierarchies, archived pages, and inconsistent HTML.
- Experience with data cleaning, normalization, validation, and delivery in CSV, JSON, or Google Sheets.
- Experience handling anti-bot mechanisms and dynamic site structures at scale.
- Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure and Docker containerization.
- Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks such as LangChain or OpenRouter for automation tasks.
- English proficiency at upper-intermediate (B2) level or above is required.
- A bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, applied mathematics, computer science, or a related technical field is a plus.
- A GitHub link is a plus.
Benefits
- Part-time freelance engagement with remote work from Italy.
- Estimated workload of 10–20 hours per week during active project phases, without guaranteed workload.
- Compensation can reach up to $40 per hour equivalent depending on level and pace of contribution.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Mindrift
Mindrift builds an expert-sourcing platform that connects domain specialists to project-based work training and evaluating generative AI models, including supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, evaluation, and red-teaming. It is built and operated by Toloka, part of Nebius Group, and run from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Work is fully remote and freelance, serving global technology companies developing and improving large AI systems.