Data Engineer - Web Scraping

Team: IT

Location: Poland

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

As a Data Engineer specializing in web scraping, you will design, develop, and maintain automated data collection systems while ensuring the quality, accuracy, and availability of large-scale datasets. You will collaborate across teams to build efficient, reliable, and scalable data solutions.

• Collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver tailored data solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain web scrapers for a wide range of structured and unstructured data sources.
• Clean, transform, validate, and manipulate large datasets using Python and Pandas.
• Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines into databases or data warehouses.
• Schedule, monitor, and optimize scraping workflows using orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.
• Develop quality control checks to ensure data integrity, consistency, and availability.
• Investigate and resolve data pipeline issues and time-sensitive production incidents.
• Design and enhance internal tools, automation frameworks, and platform capabilities to improve operational efficiency.
• Work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to implement scalable and maintainable data processing workflows.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills with hands-on experience in web scraping, data processing, and automation. Success in this role requires both technical expertise and a proactive, problem-solving mindset.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• 2–4 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python and solid SQL/database knowledge.
• Advanced experience using the Pandas library for data cleaning, transformation, and analysis.
• Experience working with web technologies, including HTML, JavaScript, APIs, and related protocols.
• Proven experience processing, cleaning, and transforming large datasets.
• Familiarity with web scraping frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Scrapy, XPath, Fiddler, or Postman.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of Docker containerization; Kubernetes experience is an advantage.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience working with cloud services, particularly AWS technologies such as S3, RDS, Lambda, SNS, or SQS, is preferred.
• Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, communication skills, and a passion for automation and continuous improvement.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work on challenging projects supporting a leading global asset management environment.
• High level of ownership and autonomy in a collaborative, team-oriented culture.
• Exposure to modern data engineering, web scraping, cloud, and automation technologies.
• Collaborative environment with experienced engineering, product, and data professionals.
• Opportunities for continuous learning, professional growth, and technical skill development.
• Merit-driven culture that values innovation, initiative, and individual contributions.
• Flexible, technology-focused environment with opportunities to work on impactful data products.