Web Scraper

Job Title: Web Scraper

Job Type: Contractor (Part-time)

Location: Remote

Job Summary:

Join our customer’s team as a Web Scraper, where you’ll leverage your expertise to extract, process, and analyze data from diverse online sources. In this expert-level role, you’ll collaborate closely with other specialists to deliver clean, reliable data solutions that power critical decision-making. You will play a key role in ensuring data integrity while working in a dynamic remote environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust web scraping scripts and applications

• Perform data extraction from multiple websites, handling both static and dynamic content

• Clean, validate, and structure large volumes of scraped data for further analysis

• Monitor scraping pipelines for data quality and troubleshoot scraping failures

• Implement solutions to bypass anti-scraping mechanisms and maintain scraping effectiveness

• Collaborate with customer’s team members to define data requirements and deliverables

• Document scraping processes and maintain code for scalability and reusability

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven experience in building and maintaining web scrapers using tools such as Python, Scrapy, Selenium, or similar technologies

• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and web protocols

• Expertise in handling APIs, RESTful interfaces, and parsing JSON/XML data

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information clearly

• Proficiency with data cleaning, manipulation, and storage using relational or NoSQL databases

• Knowledge of web security concepts and best practices for ethical scraping

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues autonomously

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud-based scraping and deployment (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Familiarity with version control systems like Git

• Background in large-scale data extraction projects