Platform Architect & Tech Lead

Role Description

As the Platform Architect & Tech Lead, you will own the technical architecture of our Web Data Platform, guide engineering decisions, and lead a team responsible for browser automation, data collection infrastructure, and large-scale distributed services. You'll remain close to the code while spending a significant portion of your time on architecture, technical strategy, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

What You'll Do:

• Own the technical architecture and long-term evolution of the Web Data Platform.
• Define engineering standards, architectural principles, and technical roadmaps.
• Lead a team of engineers through technical direction, mentoring, and regular feedback.
• Design and build scalable distributed systems for public web data collection.
• Drive the evolution of our browser automation platform and data extraction infrastructure.
• Solve complex engineering challenges involving JavaScript-heavy websites, browser automation, networking, and anti-bot environments.
• Improve scalability, resilience, observability, and operational excellence across the platform.
• Review architecture, code, and technical designs to maintain high engineering quality.
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to deliver reliable production systems.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and the professional growth of the engineering team.
• Help shape the engineering culture through technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Several years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience as a Technical Lead, Staff Engineer, Engineering Lead, or Software Architect.
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Expert-level Python.
• Deep understanding of asynchronous programming, concurrency, and high-performance backend systems.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills.
• Experience building production platforms that operate under significant scale and reliability requirements.
• Strong understanding of networking, browser internals, JavaScript rendering, cookies, sessions, caching, and modern web technologies.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills.
• Strong communication and technical leadership abilities.
• Upper-Intermediate English or higher.

Preferred Experience

• Browser automation platforms (Playwright, CDP, Chromium-based tooling).
• Distributed crawling or web data collection platforms.
• Reverse engineering of modern web applications and anti-bot systems.
• High-load backend services processing millions of requests or pages per day.
• Performance optimization of distributed systems.
• Platform engineering and infrastructure automation.
• Production incident management and operational excellence.
• Mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across teams.

Leadership Expectations

• Make sound architectural decisions under uncertainty.
• Balance immediate business needs with long-term platform evolution.
• Translate complex technical challenges into clear engineering plans.
• Build alignment across teams through technical leadership.
• Raise engineering quality through architecture reviews and code reviews.
• Mentor engineers and help develop future technical leaders.
• Take ownership of technical outcomes from design through production.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture.
• Own the architecture of one of the company's most strategic technology platforms.
• Work on technically challenging distributed systems at production scale.
• High level of technical autonomy and ownership.
• Opportunity to influence engineering strategy and platform direction.

Benefits

• Remote-first environment with flexible working hours.
• Competitive compensation.
• Learning and professional development budget.
• Support for conferences, certifications, and technical growth.