Backend Engineer for open source frameworks (TypeScript)

Apify's mission is to help anyone get more value from the web with automation, AI agents, and web scraping.

Why?

We believe that humans have better things to do than filling forms, compiling huge Excel sheets of copy-pasted data, or watching thousands of videos to determine whether they include a specific brand logo.

Those are jobs for machines.

And just as in the real world we have tools that make our lives easier, we should have tools to make our lives easier on the web.

Web automation has a profound impact. Our users automate service unsubscriptions to save people money, and they collect billions of rows of data from all over the world for AI training, protection of consumers, or finding lost children. We give AI chatbots the context to interact intelligently, and we’re developing novel ways to work with generative AI like ChatGPT.

What you’ll be working on?

Apify has grown as the tool of choice for any Node.js/JS/TS engineer when it comes to web scraping and web automation. We are now also taking on the Python community. Our open-source tooling is used by tens of thousands of people worldwide. Check out the Crawlee library, our GitHub, and the vibrant community on Discord.

• You'll be part of one of our 7 product teams—the team that works on Apify’s open-source tools.

• The team is led by Martin Adamek, co-author of Apify’s Crawlee and his very own MikroORM library.

• You'll face many challenges regarding the usage of browsers in the cloud, browser fingerprinting, scalability, and more.

• But you'll also be in direct touch with the community that uses the tools you build.

They say there are no perfect candidates, but you might be the one if you have:

• Experience with working on large, complex applications or frameworks

• Great skills at developing and debugging in JavaScript/Node.js/TypeScript or have this skill in some other programming language and are able to learn it quickly

• Familiarity with Linux

• Experience in open-source development is a plus

• Experiment-driven and collaborative mindset

• Good communication skills in English

Why should you work at Apify?

• Space, support, and autonomy for personal growth, with a direct impact on our success

• Full-time position in Prague (Lucerna Palace) or Brno (Titanium) 🏰

• Option to work remotely 🛋️

• Flexible working hours (perfect for both night owls 🦉 and early birds 🐥)

• Nobody counts holidays as long as the work gets done 💪

• Stock options and profit sharing 💰

• We welcome pets, kids, and bikes at the office 🐕👨‍👧🚲

• Epic team buildings and offsites 🚢 with biking, canoeing, and other adventures 🪂

• Solid education and training budget, conference tickets, internal “Eat & Learn” sessions, and the possibility to work across teams 👩🏼‍💻👨🏽‍💻

• Generous hardware budget 💻

• Free lunches every day when you’re in the office 🌮🍱🍜🍕🥡

• Unlimited supply of ☕ & 🍺 and snacks

• Free entry to the wonderful Prague Zoo 🐘

• Free Multisport card 🏋

• Ping-pong, chess, PS5, lightsabers, foosball league after lunch.
  

For more details about Apify and what it is like to work with us, see our Careers page.