Alphamatician is hiring a Web Scraping Engineer for an individual-contributor role at the heart of our data operations. The work is technical, operational, and quietly important: keeping a mature alternative-data product running reliably for institutional investors.

What You Will Do

Morning (7am ET). Review overnight pipeline logs. Identify failures, anomalies, or coverage gaps. Triage fixes and follow-ups.
Engineering work. Fix PHP bugs. Update scrapers as target sites change their structure or defenses. Update cron logic. Ship incremental improvements to collection coverage and quality.
Data quality. Run checks against current and historical baselines to confirm coverage and accuracy.
Client questions. Respond to client inquiries about coverage, methodology, or anomalies as they come in.
Strategy. Periodically discuss collection strategies, help scope and stand up new datasets, and contribute to new products and features.

This is operational work with a steady rhythm. The reward is in keeping an key data product running well,



and in being good at a specific kind of hard problem (scraping hard sites at scale) that few people are actually good at.

Hard Requirements

Production PHP experience. CodeIgniter 4 is a strong plus. You must be able to point to public PHP work: a repo, contributions to a project, a blog post, or similar.
Python proficiency with modern scraping libraries. Working fluency in Playwright, Scrapy, Selenium, Requests, httpx, BeautifulSoup, or comparable.
Demonstrated experience scraping hard targets at scale. Sites with active anti-bot defenses, dynamic rendering, rate-limit walls, or aggressive blocking. You must include a link to public scraping work in your application, or describe a specific scraper you built in detail (target, defenses encountered, how you solved them).
MySQL competence. Reading, writing, and optimizing non-trivial queries against tables with hundreds of millions of rows.
Schedule. 7am US Eastern start.
US-based wit

📌 Intern Fall/Winter/Spring/Summer (Ajmer)
🏢 Alphamatician
📍 Ajmer