Web Scraping Lead - Global Team; India)

About Us:

Yipit Data 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 ride sharing, 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.

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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• Our compensation package includes competitive salary and comprehensive benefit offerings.
• Opportunities to build a career as a manager or individual contributor through our career ladder that promotes based on impact. You will have regular career conversations with your manager where you will discuss your short and long-term career goals. We are committed to helping you develop in your career and offer the potential for internal mobility opportunities
• We care about your personal life, and we actually mean it. We offer flexible work hours, a hybrid work environment, unlimited vacation, a generous 401K match, parental leave, team events, a wellness budget, learning reimbursement, monthly WFH budget for remote workers, and more!
• Through our HR platform, you’ll get to choose from a variety of health plans starting at no monthly out-of-pocket premium, dental, vision, 401k match, and commuter…