About This Role
This freelance role on the Tendem project is for a Python data scraping engineer to drive specialized data scraping workflows for real-world applications. It suits a technical professional with hands-on experience in web scraping, data extraction, and processing, who can apply their expertise to deliver accurate, reliable, and high-quality results.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end data extraction workflows across complex websites, ensuring complete coverage, accuracy, and reliable delivery of structured datasets
- Leverage available tools and custom workflows to accelerate data collection, validation, and task execution while meeting defined requirements
- Ensure reliable extraction from dynamic and interactive web sources, adapting approaches as needed to handle JavaScript-rendered content and changing site behavior
- Enforce data quality standards through validation checks, cross-source consistency controls, adherence to formatting specifications, and systematic verification prior to delivery
- Scale scraping operations for large datasets using efficient batching or parallelization, monitor failures, and maintain stability against minor site structure changes
Requirements
- At least 3+ years of relevant experience in data engineering, web scraping, automation, or software development
- Strong technical foundation and practical experience with scripting, automation, and data extraction workflows
- Ability to solve non-trivial problems
- Confidence working with modern web technologies and data processing tools
- Methodical, detail-oriented approach
- Ability to work independently
- Strong experience in Python web scraping (BeautifulSoup, Selenium or similar), including dynamic content (JS, AJAX, infinite scroll) and APIs via proxies
- Proven ability to extract data from complex structures (hierarchies, archived pages, inconsistent HTML)
- Solid background in data cleaning, normalization, and validation, delivering structured datasets (CSV, JSON, Google Sheets)
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and AI frameworks to enhance automation and problem-solving
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy
- Self-directed work ethic with ability to troubleshoot independently
- English proficiency: Upper-intermediate (B2) or above
Nice to have:
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related technical fields
- A link to GitHub
Important Details
- Schedule: Tasks are estimated to require around 10-20 hours per week during active phases
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