Apify is the largest marketplace of tools for AI. 25,000 Actors helping people and agents get real-time web data, track competitors, generate leads, or integrate their apps. Actors are built by a global creator community that now earns more than $1M every month.
Join us to help people put the web to work. Apify can find missing children, protect consumers from fake discounts across the EU, and feed data to AI chatbots.
To support this mission, we're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager (EM) to lead our engineers in Professional Services - five specialized pods with around 15 engineers - delivering consulting and custom engineering work for our customers, plus a handful of internal projects. You'll partner with CTO Marek Trunkát and EM Vladimír Zahajský to shape how engineering scales as the organization grows.
What you'll be working on:You'll co-lead five specialized Pods (~15 engineers) with your peer technical consultant in Apify Professional Services, delivering technical solutions to customers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.You'll manage direct reports through regular 1on1s, career conversations, and growth plans, and give direct, constructive feedback that helps people grow.
You'll drive hiring - running technical interviews, evaluating candidates, and attracting strong talent to the team.
You'll uphold technical excellence across the pods - setting standards for delivery speed and code quality, and guiding architecture and tooling decisions together with your team leads and senior engineers.
You'll identify gaps and introduce better practices, tools, and methodologies to elevate the team's capabilities.
You'll partner closely with our Technical Consultants, who own customer communication and project scoping, to make sure delivery runs smoothly.
Together with the CTO and fellow Engineering Manager, you'll help define and implement processes across the engineering organization to support its growth.
You'll collaborate across Product, Sales, and Customer Success to keep delivery aligned with customer outcomes.
You've led an engineering team before and are comfortable owning people management at scale.
You have a solid technical background in Node.js / TypeScript - enough to reasonably evaluate technical decisions and discussions with your team.
You will play a key role in scaling AI integration across our workflows. We’re looking for someone who stays ahead of the curve and can help us identify and implement emerging AI tools to keep our team at the cutting edge
You have a track record of giving feedback that helps people grow, and a natural talent for building collaboration, guiding team members, and achieving results toward shared goals.
You have a passion for learning, continuous improvement, and supporting others.
You have strong English communication skills.
Nice to have:
Familiarity with web scraping, browser automation, or data-extraction tooling.
Experience scaling an engineering function through a growth phase.
Know your direct reports - their strengths, growth areas, and career goals - and have established a regular 1on1 rhythm.
Understand how each of the 5 pods operates, where the friction points are, and how delivery flows with Technical Consultants and customers.
Have identified the top two or three improvement areas (process, tooling, or team health) and started working on the first one.
Run the pods smoothly - predictable delivery, healthy workload, no one burning out.
Have clear ownership at pod and individual level, with fewer things falling between the cracks.
Ship process improvements that are actually being adopted across the pods.
See developer satisfaction trending up measured in 1on1s, surveys, and retention.
Have hired and onboarded new engineers without quality regression.
Our tech stack - Web Automation
Development: Node.js (with TypeScript), Chrome DevTools, Crawlee, Apify SDK, Puppeteer, Playwright, jQuery/Cheerio + many other specialized libraries. We also released Python SDK and are acquiring expertise in Python scraping tools.
Environment: Local IDE for development & testing. Then deploy to the Apify platform via GitHub for production.
Tools: GitHub, ZenHub, Notion, Google Workspace, and GitHub Copilot license
Process: In-depth onboarding, code reviews, tests, automating whatever we can, using common sense over strict processes.
Space, support, and autonomy for personal growth, with a direct impact on our success
Full-time position in Prague at our amazing office located in Lucerna Palace 🏰
Option to work remotely 🛋️
Flexible working hours 🕰️
Nobody counts holidays as long as the work gets done 💪
Unlimited Claude for every Apifier. We don't count tokens. Just use them well 🤖
Stock options and profit sharing 💰
Free Multisport card 🏋️♀️
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 working from the office 🌮🥡
Unlimited supply of ☕ & 🍺 and snacks
Free entry to the wonderful Prague Zoo 🐘
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.
Skills Required
- Experience leading engineering teams
- Strong technical background in Node.js and TypeScript
- Ability to manage people and processes effectively
- Solid English communication skills
What We Do
Apify is a full-stack web scraping and browser automation platform that lets you extract data from websites and automate workflows on the web. With Apify, you can turn any website into an API!
