In this role, you’ll:
- Lead people management (hiring, growth, performance, salary reviews).
- Manage 8-10 senior engineers team delivery according to business priorities, ensuring right team ambition according to capacity.
- Champion team health: Catch problems early, don’t wait for retros.
- Ensure team skill composition matches product direction.
- Own delivery outcomes: PM defines what/why; EM owns how/when/who.
- Accept work from PM, push back when specs aren’t ready.
- Report delivery expectations, status and flags to business.
- Balance features, experiments, tech debt, bug fixes.
- Remove impediments: cross-team deps, infra blockers, unclear requirements.
- Drive technical excellence: code review culture, testing, observability.
- Maintain infrastructure reliability (650B+ req/month, 300K+ req/sec - uptime is existential).
- Own day-to-day architecture decisions; escalate strategic ones to Head of PD.
- Navigate tech debt decisions: when to pay down, when to live with it.
Your skills & experience:
- Product sensibility: understands why, not just how.
- Comfortable with high-autonomy engineering cultures.
- Technical background.
- Fluent English (international team).
Nice to have:
- Experience in System Architecture.
- SaaS / API / developer tools experience.
- Python ecosystem (Django, async Python) experience.
- High-throughput distributed systems (billions-scale) experience.
- Knowledge of proxy, scraping, or data collection industry.
Salary & Benefits:
- Gross salary: 6000 EUR/month - 8000 EUR/gross + quarterly KPI-based performance bonus. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.
- Growth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.
- Health & Well-being: Private health insurance, psychotherapy, on-site well-being consultants, 24/7 gym access, and a wellness app.
- Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation, quarterly team-building budgets, and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.
- Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, barista coffee, and all the tools you need. See the full list of benefits here: https://career.oxylabs.io/blog/our-work-benefits/.
Skills Required
- People management: hiring, growth, performance, salary reviews
- Manage delivery for an 8-10 senior-engineer team
- Technical background and ability to own architecture decisions
- Product sensibility: understands why not just how
- Fluent English for international team communication
- Comfortable with high-autonomy engineering cultures
- Experience in System Architecture
- SaaS, API or developer tools experience
- Python ecosystem experience (Django, async Python)
- High-throughput distributed systems experience (Ceph, Kafka, large-scale infra)
- Knowledge of proxy, scraping, or web data collection
What We Do
Established in 2015, Oxylabs is a web intelligence acquisition solution and premium proxy provider, enabling companies of all sizes to utilize the power of big data. Constant innovation, an extensive patent portfolio, and a focus on ethics have allowed Oxylabs to become a global leader in the web intelligence collection industry and forge close ties with dozens of Fortune Global 500 companies. In 2022 and 2023, Oxylabs was named Europe's fastest-growing web intelligence acquisition company in the Financial Times’ FT 1000 list. Unlocking the power of web intelligence with Oxylabs! As businesses look for ways to create and optimize revenue streams, internal data is being exhausted, forcing companies to turn outwards. Organizations are now competing over external data insights that are fueling the digital economy's growth. Oxylabs proudly stands as a leading force in the web intelligence collection industry. Our innovative and ethical scraping solutions make web intelligence insights accessible to those that seek to become leaders in their own domain. Why choose us? Industry Leaders: As one of the market-leading companies, we offer cutting-edge web scraping solutions backed by the world's largest ethical proxy network. Partnering for success: We view our clients as partners, working hand in hand to maximize the benefits of our collaboration. Your success is our success. Elevate your business with our services: - Market Research: Gain insights that drive informed decisions. - Ad Verification: Ensure real audiences see your ads. - Brand Protection: Safeguard your online reputation. - Travel Fare Aggregation: Optimize travel-related pricing. - SEO Monitoring: Stay ahead in search engine rankings. - Pricing Intelligence: Make data-driven pricing decisions and more. Curious about how Oxylabs can supercharge your business? We're here to help! Drop us a line at [email protected].
