Lead Python Engineer ​/ Developer - Vice President

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

• Assist with the design and implementation of advanced scraping solutions using Python, Playwright, and AWS services.
• Architect scraping pipelines using serverless AWS components such as Lambda, Step Functions, S3, Cloud Watch, and Secrets Manager.
• Build systems that scale to support high volumes of data extraction with fault tolerance, retries, and intelligent logging.
• Integrate and manage complex workflows across multiple portals, APIs, and data sources.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, tooling, and best practices.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 10+ years of experience in Python development, with a strong focus on automation and data extraction
• Proven expertise in web scraping using tools like Playwright, Selenium, Scrapy, Beautiful Soup, and requests
• Proficient in deploying and managing scraping workloads in AWS, particularly Lambda, S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, and Secrets Manager
• Comfortable working with APIs, JSON/XML, and data transformation
• Experience with CI or CD pipelines, Docker, and infrastructure as code (i.e. Cloud Formation, Terraform)
• Familiar with data pipeline orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or AWS Step Functions
• Prior experience scraping from secure or enterprise-level portals (i.e. financial, healthcare, legal)
• Background in data engineering or ETL workflows is a plus
• Exposure to Python testing frameworks and writing unit or integration tests

The base salary range for this role is $150,000 to $180,000. iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).

We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affinitive Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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