Open Source Engineer (TypeScript)
Apify's mission is to make the web more programmable 💻.
Why?
We believe that humans have better things to do than fill in 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 machines.
And just as we have tools that make our lives easier in the real world, we should also have tools to make our lives easier on the web.
We use web automation to robotize unsubscribe flows to save people money, and we collect billions of rows of data from all over the world for science, market research, or finding lost children.
Fortune 500 companies and small startups alike need this power to make great business decisions 🚀.
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.
You'll be a perfect match 💜➕💜 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
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
Our tech stack:
- Frontend: React.js, styled-components, Storybook, Cypress
- Backend: TypeScript/Node.js, Next.js, Nest.js, Docusaurus, Jest, Vitest
- Infra: AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, GitHub Actions...
- Monitoring: Grafana, LogDNA, Sentry, PagerDuty
- Tools: GitHub, ZenHub, Notion, GSuite
- AI Tools: Langchain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone, OpenAI API, Web agents
- Process: two-week sprints, code reviews, tests, automating whatever we can, deploying multiple times per day
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.