Part-Time Junior Data Engineer (with Web Scraping + Long-Term Potential)

We’re MostlyBooked — a revenue management agency for Airbnb hosts. Our mission is to become the #1 pricing agency in the short-term rental industry, powered by AI.

We’ve built our own pricing strategy systems from scratch and are now semi-automating the backend to deliver better performance than any other pricing solution out there. Think: custom pricing pipelines, data-driven rate decisions, and eventually a fully intelligent pricing engine.

We work fast, we care deeply about quality, and we’re building something truly disruptive in this space.

THE ROLE:

We’re looking for a Junior Data Engineer who can help us:

Maintain and improve our current data infrastructure
Build new tools to support our pricing workflows
Lay the foundations for a smarter AI-powered engine

You’ll be working closely with a Junior Data Scientist (who’s transitioning into pricing intelligence) and our founder, along with support from a senior DS consultant. Your work will help power everything we do.

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON:

Immediate Projects:

- Maintaining our PriceLabs API > BigQuery > Google Sheets pipeline

- Building custom scripts and connectors (including web scraping Airbnb & other public data sources)

- Improving the data experience for our revenue analysts (e.g., dashboards, sheet integrations, simple front-end tools)

- Ensuring our semi-automated system is robust and scalable

IN THE COMING THREE MONTHS:

- Supporting the dev of our first MVP pricing engine

- Building smarter pipelines that can integrate with new data (page views, reviews, SERP rankings)

- Helping with experimentation and monitoring of new pricing variables

- Contributing to architectural decisions for scaling

IDEAL SKILLS
(You don’t need to be an expert in everything — but you must be confident in:)

- Python (especially working with APIs, pandas, and JSON data)

- Google BigQuery or similar cloud data warehouses

- Databricks and/or other Spark-based tools

- Building and maintaining reliable ETL pipelines

- Web scraping (e.g., Playwright, Puppeteer, Scrapy, Selenium)

- Troubleshooting and optimizing data flow and system performance

- Bonus: Git experience and writing clean, reusable code

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

- You’re highly reliable and take pride in building quality systems

- You enjoy solving puzzles and finding better ways to move data

- You want to grow long-term and contribute to something game-changing

- You’re comfortable working in a fast-moving environment and figuring things out

WHY JOIN US:

This isn’t a "just do what you’re told" kind of role.
You’ll be a core part of a team building the future of pricing for STR hosts.

We’re small, agile, and looking to scale fast.
If you’re the right fit, this can become a full-time role with tons of learning, autonomy, and impact.

HOW TO APPLY:

Send us:

- A quick intro of who you are

- A few sentences on what similar projects you’ve worked on (especially pipelines, scraping, and BigQuery work)

- Let us know why you're the one for the role — and we’ll take it from there!