Squad Lead (Scraping Team)

TLDR

Lead a squad of senior engineers to deliver high-quality scraping solutions, bridging teams to ensure data delivery and maintaining outstanding operational stability.

We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.  What’s in store for you: You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers: - 6PB+ Ceph storage - 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems - 300k+ service requests/sec processed - 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed As the Scraping Tech Squad Lead, you will take on the critical function of delivering scraping solutions that will enable multiple scraping teams to ensure data delivery on a large scale. Your key responsibilities will let you shape the future of our data delivery. You will have the autonomy to lead the Scraping Tech squad of senior engineers who now deliver top-notch scraping solutions. Above all, you will be the bridge between your squad and R&D, maintaining an exceptional developer experience, and guaranteeing the rock-solid operational stability for all the squad's services. Your day-to-day:
  • Collaborate with our R&D team & ensure their discoveries reach the production environment.
  • Own sprint planning and manage a structured JIRA backlog, ensuring clear requirements and realistic ETAs.
  • Unravel high-impact ideas to move Key Results (KRs) and align squad objectives with company goals.
  • Foster a motivating team environment through workload management and continuous feedback.
  • Actively participate in technical discussions to resolve roadblocks and maintain system health.
  • Maintain Agile best practices while identifying ways to cut clutter and increase development speed.
  • Your skills & experience:
  • Experience in software development and leading technical teams of senior engineers.
  • Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Ability to adapt to changing priorities while maintaining long-term strategic focus.
  • Passion for continuous improvement.
  • Understanding of web development fundamentals.
  • Knowledge of any back-end language: Python / Go / etc.
  • Knowledge of HTML, JavaScript (JS), and REST APIs.
  • Experience with GIT, CI/CD pipelines, and software deployment processes.
  • Salary:
  • Gross salary: 4500 - 6000 EUR/month. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.
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    To support your professional growth and make you feel taken care of, we’ve put together an expansive benefit package. It covers learning, well-being, celebration, and much more  — learn all about it here.
    Up for the challenge? Let’s talk!

    Oxylabs.io creates advanced web data gathering solutions, specializing in proxy and web data scraping technologies. Our products serve thousands of renowned businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, helping them harness the power of data in a dynamic and competitive landscape.

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    €4.500 – €6.000 per month
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