Senior Backend Engineer for developer platform (Node.js/TypeScript)

Department: Engineering

Location: Prague, Brno, Ostrava

Employment Type: FullTime

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?

• As our company and team grow, so does the load on our infrastructure. We are looking for talented Backend Engineers to help us with our core web scraping and automation infrastructure built on AWS.

• You'll work in a small cross-functional team with other experienced hackers.

• You'll be creating new features and also solving complex scalability challenges.

• Apify is built for developers by developers. We’re using the Apify platform ourselves every day, and put great pride in making it better for ourselves too. We are big advocates of open source and publish everything that we can on GitHub (PRs are welcome 😉).

Our tech stack:

• Frontend: React.js, styled-components, Storybook, Cypress, Playwright

• Backend: TypeScript/Node.js, Next.js, Nest.js, Express.js, Docusaurus, Jest

• Infra: AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, GitHub Actions

• Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Mezmo, Sentry, PagerDuty

• Tools: GitHub, ZenHub, Notion, Google Workspace

• Process: two-week sprints, code reviews, tests, automating whatever we can, and deploying multiple times per day.

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

• A strong technical background or a great professional track record ➡️ We are looking for exceptional candidates no matter the seniority

• 5+ years of industry experience building backend systems and APIs

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

• Familiarity with Linux

• Experience with AWS, other public clouds, and any technology mentioned above 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.