--- title: 'Web Scraping Engineer - Global Team (India) at YipitData' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/web-scraping-engineer-global-team-india-yipitdata-india-sv8fk0mg4kgc' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Web Scraping Engineer - Global Team (India) at YipitData - **Company:** YipitData - **Location:** India - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-25 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/yipitdata/jobs/8093068 ## Job description About YipitData: YipitData is the leading market research and analytics firm for the disruptive economy and recently raised up to $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation over $1B. We analyze billions of alternative data points every day to provide accurate, detailed insights on ridesharing, e-commerce marketplaces, payments, and more. Our on-demand insights team uses proprietary technology to identify, license, clean, and analyze the data many of the world’s largest investment funds and corporations depend on. For three years and counting, we have been recognized as one of [Inc’s Best Workplaces](https://www.inc.com/profile/yipitdata). We are a fast-growing technology company backed by The Carlyle Group and Norwest Venture Partners. Our offices are located in NYC, Austin, Miami, Denver, Mountain View, Seattle, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Singapore. We cultivate a people-centric culture focused on mastery, ownership, and transparency. Why You Should Apply NOW: - High Impact: Your work will directly influence key reports and strategic decisions across multiple business units. - Exciting Challenges: Tackle the design of resilient web scrapers, navigate dynamic website structures, and optimize large-scale data extraction. - Growth Opportunities: As an early member of our expanding Web Scraping Engineering team, you will have significant input on our strategies, processes, and team culture. About The Role: 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. 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, 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 11am to 8pm IST, but there is flexibility here. You Are Likely To Succeed If: - 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. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. [Job Applicant Privacy Notice](https://www.yipitdata.com/careers/job-applicant-privacy-notice) ## About YipitData ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: YipitData provides real-time market intelligence and consumer insights by analyzing proprietary and licensed datasets from card transactions, receipts, web data, and app usage. - **Entity Type**: Private (late-stage; raised a $475M Series E round led by Carlyle) - **Headquarters**: New York City, NY, USA (19 W 44th Street, 16th Floor) - **Founded**: 2013 - **Founders**: Vinicius Vacanti (Co-Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Data & Analytics / Market Intelligence - **Target customers**: B2B – primarily hedge funds, asset managers, and corporate strategy teams at brands and retailers. - **Mission or purpose**: “Give brands and investors the market intelligence they need to see what’s happening right now and take action.” ## Products & Services - **Insight Agent**: An AI-powered tool that answers natural-language questions about companies, markets, or competitors using structured, real-time data from 40+ proprietary sources. - **Proprietary Data Network**: A combination of owned B2C and B2B panels plus always-on sources (B2B spend, cloud spend, consumer receipts, card transactions) that powers all analytics. - **Consumer Insights**: Understand who is buying, how often, why – including cross-shopping, churn, and average spend. - **Benchmarking**: Compare public or private company growth, pricing, and customer metrics against competitors. - **Market Share Tracking**: See how much of a market a company owns, broken down by region, channel, or customer segment. - **M&A Advisory & Diligence**: Validate targets and stress-test assumptions with hard data on revenue trajectory and market position. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding – $475M Series E round (led by Carlyle) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Carlyle (lead investor in Series E); customers include Walmart, Worthington, and 650+ leading investors, brands, and retailers. - **Growth Signals**: 800+ employees globally; tracks $1.8 trillion in B2B spend; covers 500,000+ companies; launched AI Insight Agent; location-flexible model attracting talent across US, APAC, Latin America, and India. ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary data network** – a mix of owned panels and licensed transaction data that competitors cannot easily replicate. - **Real transaction data** – insights are grounded in actual spending, not model outputs, providing higher accuracy for high-stakes decisions. - **Dedicated analyst support** – YipitData pairs its data infrastructure with human analysts to help clients move from signal to action faster. - **Broad coverage** – 500,000+ companies and $1.8 trillion in tracked B2B spend give a comprehensive market view. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-powered insights** – the Insight Agent represents a push to make data queryable in plain language, reducing time from question to answer. - **Expanding data sources** – continuously adding new proprietary and licensed datasets to improve coverage and granularity. - **Global scaling** – growing headcount across APAC, Latin America, and India to support a distributed workforce and serve international clients. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Built on ten core values – Impact, Judgment, Protective, Efficiency, Transparency, Self-Improvement, Experimental, Selflessness, Inclusivity, Positivity. These are practical and guide daily decision-making. - **Work flexibility**: Location-flexible – supports fully remote, hybrid, and in-office options. Employees are spread across US cities, APAC, Latin America, and India. - **Compensation**: Competitive salary plus stock option eligibility. Benefits include 100% paid premium health plan option, dental, vision, 401k match, flexible vacation (enforced), flexible hours, and generous parental leave. - **Community**: Employee resource groups (ERGs), team outings, company lunches, all-hands events, both virtual and in-person. - **Engineering culture**: Leadership includes a CTO and VP of Engineering; the company emphasizes building proprietary data infrastructure and AI tools, offering engineers exposure to large-scale data pipelines and machine learning. ## Sources 1. [yipitdata.com – About page](https://www.yipitdata.com/about) 2. [yipitdata.com – Homepage](https://www.yipitdata.com/) 3. [yipitdata.com – Careers page](https://www.yipitdata.com/careers) 4. 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