Pricing and Sourcing Automation Engineer
2 days ago
New York
Location: Remote or Hybrid (NYC Preferred) Compensation: $90K - $150K (Competitive Salary + Performance Bonus) Experience Level: Mid to Senior (3-6+ years) About Us We are a top-tier secondary market dealer of ultra-luxury watches, including Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Richard Mille, and Rolex. Our mission is to build the most efficient and trusted luxury watch marketplace — one that gives buyers the best-priced, hardest-to-find timepieces, and gives our internal team best-in-class tools to move fast and close deals. To achieve this, we’re hiring a Pricing & Sourcing Automation Engineer to build high-leverage internal tools - starting with a marketplace scraping engine and a real-time message parsing system that fuels quoting, pricing, and acquisition decisions. If you’re a strong Python developer with experience in web scraping, automation, and real-time data processing - and you’re excited about solving high-value problems in a luxury space - this role is for you. What You’ll Do Build a Marketplace Pricing Intelligence Engine • Scrape floor prices across marketplaces like Chrono24 and eBay, • Filter listings by year, condition, seller trust score, and region, • Track price trends per SKU over time, • Detect price deltas and surface buying or repricing opportunities, • Apply business rules to calculate our ideal list price and margin Develop a Messaging-Based Listing Parser • Parse product listings shared via real-time messaging platforms (e.g., WhatsApp Web), • Extract structured data: reference numbers, years, conditions, prices, and currencies, • Normalize shorthand formats like “42k usd” or “€38,000”, • Organize results into a searchable, filterable internal tool, • Help salespeople quote faster and buyers source smarter Ship Lightweight Internal Dashboards • Build simple UIs for internal team use (Streamlit, Flask, or React), • Enable filtering by ref number, price, condition, seller, etc., • Optional: add Slack/email alerts for specific triggers (e.g., watch under $X appears) Contribute to Data Strategy & Automation Roadmap • Work closely with business leadership to define what data matters •, • Suggest ways to improve sourcing, pricing, quoting speed, and margin using automation, • Optionally contribute to future tools like predictive pricing or SEO-driven listing generators What You Bring to the Table • 3+ years experience in Python development, especially web scraping, data parsing, and automation, • Strong skills with pandas, re, Playwright, Selenium, or similar scraping tools, • Ability to clean and normalize messy real-world data (especially pricing/currency formats), • Experience building simple dashboards for internal users (Streamlit, Flask, React, or similar), • Comfortable turning unstructured inputs (chat logs, shorthand listings) into clean, searchable outputs, • Clear logic and decision-making: able to implement rule-based business filters, • Bonus: Experience parsing data from messaging platforms like WhatsApp Web, Slack, Telegram, • Bonus: Experience in e-commerce, marketplaces, or quoting tools, • Bonus: Familiarity with luxury watches or the luxury goods space as a whole Why Join Us? • High-impact role where your work directly drives revenue and sales., • Competitive salary, performance bonuses, and potential equity opportunities., • Work with a team disrupting the $20B+ secondary luxury watch market., • Opportunity to grow into a senior engineering or leadership role., • Access to the world’s most exclusive watches and high-net-worth clientele.