Apify's mission is to make the web more programmable. Why? Because we believe that humans have better things to do than fill information into internet forms, compile Excel sheets of copy-pasted data or watch 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. Fortune 500 companies and small startups alike need this power to make great business decisions.
To support our mission, we're looking for talented and experienced engineers to help us build the next generation of the web, where machines talk to machines and humans do creative work that drives progress.
Join our talented Wen Automation Engineering team and help us to move to the next level. You will work alongside Engineering Manager Vladimír Zahajský, Senior Web Automation Engineers Lukáš Křivka and Andrey Bykov, and 20 talented engineers. Web Automation Engineering team is part of Apify Engineering led by CTO Marek Trunkát.
What you'll be working on?
- You will be responsible for the technical excellence of our team
- You will improve our code quality and establish new best practices for writing effective Actors.
- You will use code reviews, mentoring, and tooling among other approaches to achieve this.
- You will work on team-wide initiatives such as GitHub CI/CD pipeline, and testing framework.
- You will establish and improve the usage of developer tools to increase productivity and ensure quality.
- Through consulting and mentoring, you will unblock complex challenges engineers face in their projects. You will, of course, contribute with code as well.
- You will consistently improve documentation, tutorials, and onboarding both for our internal engineering and also for the broader community of Apify and Crawlee users.
- This role doesn’t require direct management of reports but we are open to it if you would prefer it.
- You will improve our code quality and establish new best practices for writing effective Actors.
- You will cooperate with other engineering and product teams
- You will drive a tight feedback loop with open-source Tooling and Product teams, ensuring they provide the best platform to deliver on for customers.
- You will collaborate with other engineering teams to improve team technical prowess.
They say there are no perfect candidates, but you might be the one if:
- You are highly skilled at developing and debugging in JavaScript/Node.js programs.
- You have at least 4 years of professional or open-source experience where you collaborated on a significant project within a team.
- You consider code quality, readability, and frequent refactoring essential to developing a maintainable solution.
- You are a team player who enjoys sharing their skills and knowledge with colleagues and you have experience with code reviews, documentation writing, and mentoring more junior engineers
- Owning a university degree in software engineering or computer science is also a plus, but not a requirement
Our tech stack:
- Development: Node.js (with Typescript), Chrome Dev Tools, Crawlee, Apify SDK, Puppeteer, Playwright, JQuery/Cheerio, GitHub Actions, Vitest + many other specialized libraries. We use Apify Actors for a lot of internal stuff as well. We also released Python SDK lately and are acquiring expertise in Python scraping tools.
- Environment: Local IDE for development & testing. Then deploy to the Apify Platform via GitHub CI/CD for production
- Tools: GitHub, ZenHub, Notion, GSuite, GitHub Copilot free license
- Process: in-depth onboarding, code reviews, tests, automating whatever we can, using common sense over strict processes, focus on high readability and documentation
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 amazing office located in Lucerna Palace, Prague, Czech Republic 🏰
- 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 ☎️ → Live Coding 🧑🏼💻 → Interview ✍️ → Meeting with the team 🍕 → Offer 📄
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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!
