Backend Engineer for open source frameworks (TypeScript)

Apify's mission is to make the web more programmable.

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 a machine.

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 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.

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

• 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.