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We are seeking a Web Scraping Engineer to join our growing engineering team. In this hands-on role, you’ll take ownership of designing, building, and maintaining robust web scrapers that power critical reports and customer experiences across our organization. You will work on complex, high-impact scraping challenges and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our data ingestion processes are resilient, efficient, and scalable, while delivering high-quality data to our products and stakeholders.
Job Responsibility:
Refactor and Maintain Web Scrapers: Overhaul existing scraping scripts to improve reliability, maintainability, and efficiency
Implement best coding practices (clean code, modular architecture, code reviews, etc.) to ensure quality and sustainability
Implement Advanced Scraping Techniques: Utilize sophisticated fingerprinting methods (cookies, headers, user-agent rotation, proxies) to avoid detection and blocking
Handle dynamic content, navigate complex DOM structures, and manage session/cookie lifecycles effectively
Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with analysts and other stakeholders to gather requirements, align on targets, and ensure data quality
Provide support, documentation, and best practices to internal stakeholders to ensure effective use of our web scraped data in critical reporting workflows
Monitor and Troubleshoot: Develop robust monitoring solutions, alerting frameworks to quickly identify and address failures
Continuously evaluate scraper performance, proactively diagnosing bottlenecks and scaling issues
Drive Continuous Improvement: Propose new tooling, methodologies, and technologies to enhance our scraping capabilities and processes
Stay up to date with industry trends, evolving bot-detection tactics, and novel approaches to web data extraction
Requirements:
Effective communication in English with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
3+ years of experience with web scraping frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, or Puppeteer)
Strong understanding of HTTP, RESTful APIs, HTML parsing, browser rendering, and TLS/SSL mechanics
Expertise in advanced fingerprinting and evasion strategies (e.g., browser fingerprint spoofing, request signature manipulation)
Deep experience managing cookies, headers, session states, and proxy rotations, including the deployment of both residential and data center proxies
Experience with logging, metrics, and alerting to ensure high availability
Troubleshooting skills to optimize scraper performance for efficiency, reliability, and scalability
What we offer:
Our compensation package includes comprehensive benefits, perks, and a competitive salary
We care about your personal life and we mean it. We offer vacation time, parental leave, team events, learning reimbursement, and more!
Your growth at YipitData is determined by the impact that you are making, not by tenure, unnecessary facetime, or office politics. Everyone at YipitData is empowered to learn, self-improve, and master their skills in an environment focused on ownership, respect, and trust