Web Scraping Engineer - India (Remote)

About Us:

YipitData is the leading market research and analytics firm for the disruptive economy, recently raising $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation exceeding $1B. Our proprietary technology analyzes billions of alternative data points daily to uncover actionable insights across sectors like software, AI, cloud, e-commerce, ridesharing, and payments.

Our data and research teams transform raw data into strategic intelligence, delivering accurate, timely, and deeply contextualized analysis that our clients—ranging from the world’s top investment funds to Fortune 500 companies—rely on for high-stakes decisions. We ensure clients gain not just data, but clarity and confidence through rigorous analysis, expert narrative framing, and the sourcing and licensing of novel datasets.

We operate globally with offices in the US (NYC, Austin, Miami, Mountain View), APAC (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Singapore), and India. Our award-winning, people-centric culture, recognized by Inc. as a Best Workplace for three consecutive years, emphasizes transparency, ownership, and continuous mastery.

What It’s Like to Work at YipitData:

YipitData is a launchpad for ambitious, impact-driven professionals. From day one, you'll take the lead on meaningful work, accelerate your growth, and gain exposure that shapes careers.

Why Top Talent Chooses YipitData:

• Ownership That Matters: Lead high-impact projects with real business outcomes.
• Rapid Growth: Compress years of learning into months.
• Merit Over Titles: Trust and responsibility are earned through execution, not tenure.
• Velocity with Purpose: Move fast, support each other, and aim high—always with purpose and intention.

If your ambition is matched by your work ethic and you're hungry for a place where growth, impact, and ownership are the norm, YipitData might be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.

About The Role:

We are seeking a Web Scraping Engineer to join our growing engineering team. In this hands-on role, you will 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.

As Our Web Scraping Engineer You Will:

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 and 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.

This is a fully-remote opportunity based in India. Standard work hours are from 11 am to 8 pm IST, but there is flexibility.

You Are Likely To Succeed If: