Web Scraping Lead - Global Team (India)

About Us:

YipitData is the leading market research and analytics firm for the disruptive economy and recently raised up to $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation over $1B.

We analyze billions of alternative data points every day to provide accurate, detailed insights on ridesharing, e-commerce marketplaces, payments and more. Our on-demand insights team uses proprietary technology to identify, license, clean and analyze the data many of the world’s largest investment funds and corporations depend on.

For three years and counting, we have been recognized as one of Inc’s Best Workplaces. We are a fast-growing technology company backed by The Carlyle Group and Norwest Venture Partners. Our offices are located in NYC, Austin, Miami, Denver, Mountain View, Seattle, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Singapore. We cultivate a people-centric culture focused on mastery, ownership, and transparency.

About The Role:

We are looking for an experienced Web Scraping Manager to lead our web scraping engineering team and own the design, scalability, reliability, and performance of our scraping infrastructure. You’ll lead engineers, drive technical architecture and best practices, solve complex scraping challenges, and collaborate with Engineering, Data, Analytics, and Product teams to deliver reliable, high-quality data.

As Our Web Scraping Manager You Will:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of web scraping engineers.
• Own the architecture, roadmap, scalability, and reliability of scraping systems.
• Guide the development and maintenance of scrapers using Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, etc.
• Solve complex challenges involving dynamic websites, browser automation, fingerprinting, sessions, cookies, headers, and proxies.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and data-quality practices.
• Drive performance, reliability, and infrastructure improvements.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to prioritize scraping requirements and deliver high-quality data.
• Participate in hiring, technical reviews, and engineering planning.

This is a fully-remote opportunity based in India. Standard work hours are from 11am to 8pm IST, but there is flexibility here.

You Are Likely To Succeed If:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong web scraping experience.
• Previous engineering management/team leadership experience preferred.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium.
• Deep understanding of HTTP, REST APIs, HTML/DOM, browser rendering, and TLS/SSL.
• Strong experience with fingerprinting, anti-bot challenges, cookies, headers, sessions, and proxy rotation.
• Experience building scalable, reliable scraping infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, metrics, and production troubleshooting.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong ownership, leadership, and mentoring abilities.

What We Offer:

Our compensation package includes comprehensive benefits, perks, and a competitive salary: 

• We care about your personal life, and we mean it. We offer flexible work hours, flexible vacation, parental leave, team events, wellness budget, learning reimbursement, and more!
• Your growth at YipitData is determined by the impact that you are making, not by tenure, unnecessary facetime, or office politics. Everyone at YipitData is empowered to learn, self-improve, and master their skills in an environment focused on ownership, respect, and trust. See more on our high-impact, high-opportunity work environment above!
• The final offer may be determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, as well as internal team benchmarks. 

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.

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