Backend Engineer for Developer Platform (Node.js/TypeScript)

Join us on our journey of building a web scraping and browser automation platform to help the world’s biggest companies and upcoming startups leverage the web's full potential. Each month, we save people tons of hours of manual work by turning more than a billion web pages into data and automating over 15 million tasks on the web 🚀

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 will 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
• Backend: TypeScript/Node.js, Next.js, Express.js, Docusaurus, Meteor.js, Jest
• Infra: AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, GitHub Actions...
• Monitoring: New Relic, LogDNA, Sentry, PagerDuty
• Tools: GitHub, ZenHub, Notion, GSuite
• Process: two-week sprints, code reviews, tests, automating whatever we can, deploying multiple times per day

You'll be a perfect match 💜➕💜 if you have:

• You have a strong technical background or a great professional track record ➡️ We are looking for exceptional candidates no matter the seniority
• 2+ 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 for Apify?

• Space, support, and autonomy for personal growth, with a direct impact on our success
• Full-time position in Prague at our office located in Lucerna Palace, Prague, or Impact Hub Brno 🏰
• Option to work remotely 🛋️
• Flexible working hours (perfect for both night owls 🦉 and early birds 🐥)
• Zero bullshit policy – No Jira, no Okta, no Confluence, no Certified™ScrumMasters®, no quarterly estimates. Just GitHub, GSuite, Notion, Slack, and shipping stuff to production
• 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 🌮🍱🍜🍕🥡
• Unlimited supply of ☕ & 🍺 and snacks
• Free entry to the wonderful Prague Zoo 🐘
• Ping-pong, chess, PS5, lightsabers, foosball league after lunch, free Multisport card, and so on

Hiring Process

Intro call ☎️ → Home assignment 🧑🏼‍💻 → Interview ✍️ → Meeting with the team 🍕 → Offer 📄

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