Platform Architect & Tech Lead

4 weeks, 2 days ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Infatica

Infatica

Infatica is a global proxy network providing residential, mobile, and datacenter proxies for professional use, offering secure web scraping services with over 10 million IP addresses in 250+ locations.

Internet Software & Services
1-10
Founded 2019

Description

  • Own the technical architecture and long-term evolution of the Web Data Platform.
  • Define engineering standards, architectural principles, and technical roadmaps.
  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers through technical direction and regular feedback.
  • Design and build scalable distributed systems for public web data collection.
  • Drive the evolution of browser automation and data extraction infrastructure.
  • Solve complex engineering problems involving JavaScript-heavy websites, 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.

Requirements

  • 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 HTTP, 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.
  • Experience with browser automation platforms such as Playwright, CDP, or Chromium-based tooling is preferred.
  • Experience with distributed crawling or web data collection platforms is preferred.
  • Experience reverse engineering modern web applications and anti-bot systems is preferred.
  • Experience with high-load backend services processing millions of requests or pages per day is preferred.
  • Experience in performance optimization of distributed systems is preferred.
  • Experience in platform engineering and infrastructure automation is preferred.
  • Experience in production incident management and operational excellence is preferred.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across teams is preferred.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Modern engineering culture focused on quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Remote-first environment with flexible working hours.
  • Competitive compensation.
  • Learning and professional development budget.
  • Support for conferences, certifications, and technical growth.

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