Wrist Aficionado · 3 months ago
Pricing and Sourcing Automation Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$90K/yr - $150K/yr
3+ years expWrist Aficionado is a leading secondary market dealer of ultra-luxury watches, committed to creating an efficient and trusted luxury watch marketplace. They are looking for a Pricing & Sourcing Automation Engineer to develop internal tools for pricing intelligence and data processing to enhance quoting and acquisition decisions.
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Experience parsing data from messaging platforms like WhatsApp Web, Slack, Telegram
Experience in e-commerce, marketplaces, or quoting tools
Familiarity with luxury watches or the luxury goods space as a whole
Benefits
Competitive salary, performance bonuses, and potential equity opportunities.
Opportunity to grow into a senior engineering or leadership role.
Access to the world’s most exclusive watches and high-net-worth clientele.
Company
Wrist Aficionado
Wrist Aficionado is a retail and wholesale trade company for luxury watches and accessories.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase