Backed by First Round Capital.
About the role
Alt Value is our moat. It is only as good as the data underneath it — and that data lives on dozens of external marketplaces and auction houses that have no interest in making it easy for us to get.
What they're looking for
- 3-4 years in data engineering or a closely adjacent seat
- Modern web scraping at scale — Playwright or comparable, plus the ability to impersonate a real browser at the network layer (TLS/request fingerprinting) when a plain HTTP client gets flagged. Selenium alone doesn't cut it anymore
- Strong Python, 3+ years hands-on. Solid SQL for analysis and transformation
- A pipeline you owned end to end in the past two years. Not a pipeline you contributed to. One that was yours when it broke
- Judgment on when to generalize and when to go bespoke — you don't rebuild the same infrastructure per source, and you don't force a one-size-fits-all approach onto a source that needs custom handling
- Orchestration in your hands, not your resume. Airflow, Dagster, or a comparable DAG system — you've built on it, been paged for it, and cleaned up after it
More about this role
Alt is unlocking the value of alternative assets, starting with the $5 B trading-card market. We let collectors buy, sell, vault, and finance their cards in one place and we are backed by leaders at Stripe, Coinbase, Seven Seven Six, and pro athletes like Tom Brady and Giannis Antetokounmpo. Our next frontier is real-time pricing at scale—the Alt Value that powers every trade, loan, and product on the platform.
Alt Value is our moat. It is only as good as the data underneath it — and that data lives on dozens of external marketplaces and auction houses that have no interest in making it easy for us to get.
That's this job. You own the pipelines that scrape, normalize, and land every transaction and listing that feeds our pricing model. When a comparable sale closes on eBay or at a major auction house, how fast it shows up in Alt Value, and whether it shows up correctly, is your call and your consequence. Pricing decisions, cash advance terms, market analytics, and every dashboard in the company sit downstream of you.
The metric you own: Data Coverage. Supporting KPIs are pipeline latency, uptime, and source coverage.
The ingestion layer. Design, optimize, and own the pipelines...
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