Help Shape Tomorrow's Retail Landscape
At the cutting edge of retail data innovation in Europe, Daltix seeks a Senior Tech Lead to spearhead our core web scraping and data collection platform's evolution. You’ll need to be equipped with a knack for solving complex problems, leading a skilled team and driving tech-forward solutions. If this sounds like you and you're a natural technology enthusiast with top-notch engineering and teamwork skills, join us for an impactful journey.
This is a fully remote position, the only condition is that you are based within Europe.
Your Role:
* Architect and Innovate: Design, build, and evolve sophisticated systems that scrape data reliably and cost-effectively at scale, overcoming any challenges in your way.
* Technical Leadership: Take ownership of the future technical direction and evolution of our web scraping platform, a core part of our business, driving forward innovation and operational efficiency.
* Lead from the Front: Guide and inspire an enthusiastic team who bring deep sector specific knowledge and years of scraping experience in the retail data domain.
* Develop Talent: Commit to nurturing and enhancing your team's skills, unlocking their full potential and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
* Solve the Unsolved: Relish the opportunity to address complex issues with robust solutions, seeking out novel methods and approaches to tackle tough challenges.
* Pursue Excellence: Drive your team towards operational nirvana, ensuring work is executed and delivered with the highest standards of quality and care.
* Collaborate Across Disciplines: Work closely with our principle engineers, data scientists, data analysts, project managers and our sales teams, fostering a collaborative environment that bridges technical and business perspectives to drive success.
* Communicate Impactfully: Articulate the value and impact of your team's work to the wider company with excellent verbal and written English, enhancing understanding and appreciation of your team's contributions.
Why Join Us:
* Impact: Influence the European FMCG sector directly, enabling some of the biggest names in food, consumables and goods to leverage crucial data for decision-making.
* Culture of Innovation: Be part of a dynamic environment where innovation, speed, and adaptability are at the core of everything we do.
* Career Growth: Take advantage of our commitment to your professional development in a company that’s expanding its influence across Europe.
* Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a comprehensive package including a competitive salary, flexible working conditions, annual company events, and health+travel benefits.
* Great Technology: Work with a modern technology stack and tooling that includes AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Snowflake, Airflow, Node (>18.x), Python (>3.8), Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Hex, dbt and more.
* Remote First: Our team of 25 is spread across Belgium, Denmark and Portugal; with once per month in-person Town Halls at our Lisbon office.
Embark on a journey where your passion for data and technology can genuinely transform the retail industry. We're not just collecting data; we're driving the future of retail insights. Join us in our mission to innovate and lead in the FMCG retail data space with a team that's driven by challenges and success.
Technical Skills Required:
* Web Scraping Expertise: 5+ years of senior professional experience in large-scale web scraping with JavaScript, Node.js, Puppeteer and Playwright.
* Python and/or SQL Proficiency: 2-3 years of modern Python experience, with a focus on data wrangling; or equivalent experience in SQL.
* Reverse Engineering: Professional experience reverse engineering Android apps and their APIs.
* Website Teardown: Deep knowledge of how modern websites work and are built (SPAs, GraphQL, Ajax, Service Workers, headers, cookies, JWTs, websockets, caching etc.)
* Networking and Security: Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, TLS, HTTP/2, QUIC, DNS, WAF, web browser internals, OAuth flows, networking and security principles, including hands-on experience with MITM traffic interception.
* Anti-Bot Mitigation: Seasoned knowledge and strong experience in bypassing leading anti-bot systems (Cloudflare, Akamai, Imperva, PerimeterX, Datadome etc.)
* Proxy Management: Experience in evaluating, integrating, and negotiating partnerships with third party proxy providers.
* Infra Experience: 3+ years of senior-level SRE/DevSecOps/Platform Engineering/Sysadmin or similar experience, ideally on AWS; exposure to Kubernetes environments, IaC, large scale job orchestration and GitOps workflows a strong plus.
* On-call Rostering: experience running on-call teams that need to provide 7 day operational cover.
* Language Proficiency: Excellent verbal and written English skills are essential for effective communication across our European team and stakeholders.
In addition to these technical skills, we equally value your ability to collaborate & communicate with other engineers and non-engineering departments in the company.
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