Web Scraping Engineer

 

Description:

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Data Scraper / Web Scraping Engineer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing web scraping solutions to collect structured and reliable data from websites and other publicly available online sources.

 

You will work with APIs, scraping frameworks, data processing tools, and databases to build efficient data collection pipelines. The role requires strong programming, debugging, data-quality, and problem-solving skills.

 

𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Faisalabad, Karachi, or Hyderabad, Pakistan

𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: Minimum 2+ years of experience in Web Scraping, Data Extraction, Data Engineering, or a related field

 

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀

 • Design, develop, and maintain scalable web scraping and data extraction solutions

 • Extract structured and semi-structured data from websites and publicly available online sources

 • Develop scraping scripts using Python and relevant web scraping frameworks

 • Work with static and dynamically rendered websites and handle JavaScript-based content where appropriate

 • Integrate third-party APIs and available data sources for automated data collection

 • Clean, transform, validate, and normalize extracted data

 • Store and manage scraped data using databases, files, or cloud-based storage systems

 • Build automated data collection pipelines and schedule recurring scraping jobs

 • Monitor scraping processes and troubleshoot failed or incomplete data extraction

 • Handle changes in website structures and update scraping logic accordingly

 • Implement appropriate request handling, rate limiting, retries, caching, and error handling

 • Maintain high standards of data accuracy, completeness, and consistency

 • Develop reusable and maintainable scraping components

 • Collaborate with Data Engineers, Backend Developers, and other technical teams

 • Document scraping workflows, data sources, schemas, and technical processes

 • Ensure scraping activities comply with applicable website terms, access restrictions, and relevant laws and regulations

 

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲

 • Strong proficiency in Python

 • Hands-on experience with web scraping and data extraction

 • Experience with libraries/frameworks such as Requests, BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium, or Playwright

 • Strong understanding of HTML and DOM structure

 • Understanding of CSS selectors and XPath

 • Experience handling JavaScript-rendered/dynamic web pages

 • Experience working with REST APIs and JSON/XML data

 • Experience with SQL databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL

 • Familiarity with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases is a plus

 • Experience with data cleaning, parsing, transformation, and validation

 • Understanding of HTTP methods, headers, cookies, sessions, and status codes

 • Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows

 • Familiarity with Linux environments and command-line tools

 • Understanding of scheduled jobs, automation, logging, and monitoring