Squad Lead

We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.

What’s in store for you:
You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:

- 6PB+ Ceph storage
- 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems
- 300k+ service requests/sec processed
- 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed

In this role, you will:

- Apply our leadership principles to guide your team and drive results.

- Lead sprint planning, create and refine JIRA backlogs, and estimate ETAs to ensure clear alignment with business and technical requirements.

- Prioritize issues based on business value and actively prevent scope creep to maintain the team's focus on high-impact work.

- Drive strategic OKR planning by suggesting product initiatives, gathering supporting evidence, and collaborating with stakeholders to align objectives with company goals.

- Foster a motivating, burnout-free team culture by managing workload distribution and mentoring team members for continuous growth.

- Contribute to technical discussions, optimize Agile workflows, and resolve daily roadblocks to ensure the team builds for speed and efficiency.

Your skills & experiences:

- Practical background in software development combined with experience in leading technical teams (a servant leadership approach is highly valued).

- Solid understanding of web development fundamentals, system design, HTML, JavaScript, and REST APIs (you won't need to write code daily, but a strong technical understanding is essential).

- Hands-on experience with GIT, CI/CD pipelines, and software deployment processes.

- Strong organizational, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills with a pragmatic, data-driven approach to decision-making.

- Resilience and curiosity, with the ability to thrive in a hybrid, international setting where team members may work remotely.

Nice to Have:

- Knowledge of any back-end language (e.g., Python, Go).

- Experience with web scraping (we will train you if you don't have it).

- Don't meet everything above? Apply anyway. We're looking for what's next, not what's already been done.

Tech stack:

- HTML,

- JavaScript,

- REST APIs,

- GIT,

- CI/CD,

- JIRA (Python / Go is a plus).

Salary & Benefits:

- Gross salary: from 5500 - 7300 EUR/month. Keep in mind that we are open to discuss a different salary based on your skills and competencies.

- 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/.

Up for the challenge? Let’s talk!