Middle Python Scraping Developer

Looking for a Middle Python Scraping Developer to join the Dataforest team. If you are looking for a friendly team, a healthy working environment, and a flexible schedule, you have found the right place to send your CV. 

Skills & Qualifications:

• 2+ years of commercial experience with Python.
• Proficiency in web scraping, data extraction, cleaning, and visualization.
• Proficient with XPath: strong ability to design robust, resilient expressions for structured and semi-structured HTML documents.
• Experience with web automation techniques and tools.
• Hands-on experience with relevant libraries and frameworks, including:
  • Playwright, playwright-stealth (web-automation)
  • Requests, aiohttp, hrequests (for HTTPS requests)
  • lxml (for parsing and data extraction)
• Deep understanding of anti-bot protection and evasion strategies, including:
  • CAPTCHA solving techniques and integration with services (e.g. 2Captcha, Anticaptcha, CapSolver)
• Experience implementing structured logging, traceability, and monitoring pipelines.
• Strong understanding of multiprocessing and multithreading, including process and thread management.
• Familiarity with Linux environments, cloud services (AWS, GCP), and Docker
• Experience working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or equivalent).
• Experience with Flask / Flask-RESTful for API development.
   

   Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and optimize web scraping and parsing solutions.
• Design and implement APIs, ETL pipelines, and data integration services.
• Work closely with Project Managers to address customer requirements and challenges.
• Ensure performance optimization and efficiency of data collection pipelines.
• Collaborate with team members, participate in meetings, brainstorming sessions, and code reviews.
• Implement anti-bot evasion strategies to enhance scraping reliability.
   

   Optional Skills (Nice to Have):

• Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, or equivalent).
• Knowledge of data analysis and processing using Pandas.
  
  We offer:
• Great networking opportunities with international clients, challenging tasks;
• Building interesting projects from scratch using new technologies;
• Personal and professional development opportunities;
• Competitive salary nominated in USD;
• Paid vacation and sick leaves;
• Flexible work schedule;
• Friendly working environment with minimal hierarchy;
• Team building activities, corporate events.