Senior Automation Engineer (Python)

About the role

iGaming affiliate marketing company operating across multiple continents. The role sits within a data collection team currently gathering data across a large number of affiliate platforms. The team is evolving from a data collection function into a broader automation and data acquisition team, covering affiliate platform monitoring, web intelligence (news, competitor reports, market data), and automation of manual operational processes.

What you will do

• Design and build code-based automation and web scraping solutions in Python at industrial scale
• Integrate new data sources quickly, including sites with anti-bot measures, captchas, proxies and rate limiting
• Build and maintain integrations via REST APIs, OAuth and webhooks, including paginated data sources
• Extract and normalize information from unstructured sources such as PDFs, reports and news articles
• Implement orchestration, scheduling, retries, idempotency, monitoring and alerting for data pipelines
• Validate data quality at the source and detect silent or incomplete collection failures
• Apply LLMs and agent-based approaches for document/page extraction, news classification and summarization, and self-healing scrapers

Location and work model

• Hybrid (3 days/week in the office, Porto)

What are we looking for?

• Python — 5+ years
• Automation and data engineering — 5+ years
• Web scraping at scale (Playwright or Selenium)
• Session management, anti-bot handling, captchas, proxies, rate limiting
• REST API integration, OAuth, webhooks, pagination
• Unstructured data extraction (PDF parsing, entity extraction, normalization, deduplication)
• Git, code review, CI/CD, automated testing
• Portuguese C2
• English B2

Nice to have

• Experience with public statistical data sources
• LLM/agentic AI applied to data extraction and classification
• Airflow or similar orchestration tools
• Ambition to grow into a technical leadership role within the team

About KWAN

At KWAN, your career is bigger than one project. You join a real team, on a long-term project, at a company where technology is the business. And when you are ready for something new — a new stack, a new industry, a bigger role — we find that next step with you, without you having to start over somewhere else.

From day one you have a dedicated People Experience Partner: one person accountable for your growth, not your allocation. They know where you want to go, and they help you get there.

You keep learning as technology moves (AI included). Your impact is seen and recognised. Pay and expectations are talked about openly. And you work remote-first, with hubs in Lisbon and Porto for when you want people around.

Grow with clarity. Be treated with respect. Build things that matter.

Apply — if your profile is a match for this role, you will hear from our Talent team within 48 hours. If it is not the right match this time, we will reach out as soon as we find a role that fits you better.