Automation Engineer VA (n8n + Web Scraping + Podio Integration)

We are a U.S.-based real estate acquisitions company automating our lead intake process.

Important Application Instructions:
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We need a highly technical Automation Engineer to build and maintain an automated system that:

• Reads daily foreclosure lead emails
• Logs into a gated website
• Scrapes property detail pages after login
• Extracts structured data (Case Number, Balance Due, etc.)
• Pulls a property value estimate (Redfin/Realtor/County Websites)
• Applies custom financial logic (spread calculation)
• Dedupes against Podio
• Automatically creates Podio items if criteria are met
• Skips leads that do not meet our spread rule

This role is NOT basic admin work. This is technical systems building. You must be comfortable working with browser automation, HTML parsing, APIs, and workflow automation tools.

Core Responsibilities:

• Build automation workflows in n8n (preferred) or Make
• Use Playwright or Puppeteer to automate login-based scraping
• Extract structured data from HTML using selectors/XPath
• Handle session persistence, cookies, throttling, and retry logic
• Integrate with Podio API for search + create item
• Implement business logic for valuation rules and spread calculation
• Create fallback logic for missing data
• Build logging and error handling
• Maintain and improve automation reliability

You MUST have experience with:

• n8n (required)
• Playwright or Puppeteer (browser automation)
• Web scraping of login-protected websites
• HTML / DOM / CSS selectors / XPath
• REST APIs
• JavaScript (strong)
• Node.js
• Handling cookies, sessions, and authentication
• Debugging network requests in DevTools
• Basic financial/math logic implementation

Strongly Preferred Experience

• Podio API experience
• Real estate data experience
• Redfin/Realtor scraping experience
• Automation error handling + retry systems
• Building persistent browser sessions
• Working with Gmail API
• Data deduplication logic
• Rate limiting / anti-bot awareness

Important! This role requires problem-solving. Websites change. Selectors break. Sessions expire.

You must be able to:
• Debug broken scrapers
• Adjust selectors
• Inspect network calls
• Implement workarounds
• Build resilient systems

To Apply Please Include:

• Links to automation projects you’ve built or GitHub (if available)
• Experience scraping login-protected websites
• Tools you’ve used (Playwright, Puppeteer, etc.)
• Internet Speed Test

We look forward to working with you!