Lead/Staff Backend Engineer Data Acquisition

At Lighthouse, we’re on a mission to disrupt commercial strategy for the hospitality industry. Our innovative commercial platform takes the complexity out of data, empowering businesses with actionable insights, advanced pricing tools, and cutting-edge business intelligence to unlock their full revenue potential.

Backed by $370 million in series C funding and driven by an unwavering passion for growth, we’ve welcomed five companies into our journey and have surpassed $100 million in ARR in 2024. Our 700+ teammates span 35 countries and represent 34 nationalities.

At Lighthouse, we’re more than just a workplace – we’re a community. Collaborative, fun, and deeply committed, we work hard together to revolutionize the hospitality sector. Are you ready to join us and shine brighter in the industry’s most exciting rocket-ship? 🚀

What you will do: #LI-Remote #LI-AV1

We are in search of a Lead/Staff Backend Engineer with a deep fascination for the inner workings of the internet and a desire to impart this passion to our team. You will play a critical role in our data extraction process, ensuring that we can extract and process billions of data points every day.

Where you will have impact:

• Drive the optimization and expansion of our crawling infrastructure, ensuring both high scalability and superior performance, while maintaining effective web scraping capabilities.
• As part of this role, you will be responsible for driving developments on our man-in-the-middle proxy, written in Rust. This component is the heart of our crawler infrastructure, as it is responsible for monitoring, upstream proxy routing and request processing for all our data extraction traffic. 
• Introduce innovative methods for enhancing our monitoring and troubleshooting processes and tools.
• Engineer scraping solutions by applying findings from our R&D.
• Actively collaborate with diverse engineering teams to address challenges and advance initiatives related to backend infrastructure.
• Serve as a subject matter expert, providing mentorship and support to team members while fostering an environment of continuous learning and development.

About our team:

Our team is at the helm of our sophisticated data extraction infrastructure. Tasked with the responsibility of acquiring pricing data from over 200 unique data sources, we process nearly 200 million requests each day. The data we collect is the lifeblood of our products. We are committed to ensuring its reliable and timely delivery, thereby powering our diverse product portfolio.

Who you are:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field.
• Experience:
• 3+ years Rust, including mastery of advanced Rust concepts and async Rust, or
• 1+ years Rust and 3+ years in any other systems programming language (e.g. C++).
• High level understanding of networking protocols.
• Experience in cloud environment and designing infrastructure architecture.
• Eagerness to learn and explore the world of web scraping.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and troubleshoot complex technical issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Fluent in English.

We welcome:

• Experience with data analysis and manipulation.
• Interest in web security.
• Comfortable mentoring colleagues.
• Experience with anti-bot technologies.
• Proven track record of technical skills (open source contributions, articles, talks…).
• Experience with Python and / or Golang.

Technologies you’ll work with:

Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Rust, Scrapy, Python, Prometheus, Grafana 

 (feel free to ask us why these are the best fit for us)

What’s in it for you:

• Flexible working environment: Work from home or at one of our global offices.
• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance.
• Collaborative team: High-bar, friendly, creative, and passionate colleagues.
• Career development: Workshops, frameworks, tools, training, and processes to realize your full potential.
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Mobility options: Mobility budget or company car tailored to your needs.
• Comprehensive health insurance: Extensive coverage for you and your dependents.
• Private pension funding: Group insurance to secure your future.
• Competitive compensation: Proactively maintained to value your work.
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

Thank you for considering a career with Lighthouse. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values equal opportunity for all. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. Our commitment to equality is not just a policy; it's part of our culture.

If you share our passion for innovation and teamwork, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of the hospitality industry. At Lighthouse, our guiding light is to be an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage individuals from all walks of life to apply.

We value the unique perspective and talents that you bring, and we're excited to see how your light can shine within our team. We can't wait to meet you and explore how we can grow and succeed together, illuminating the path towards a brighter future for the industry.