Senior Backend Engineer for Developer Platform

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Create new features
• ▹Solve complex scalability challenges on the web scraping and automation infrastructure
• ▹Work in a small cross-functional team with other experienced hackers
• ▹Use and improve the company's own platform every day

Requirements

• ▹A strong technical background or a great professional track record, regardless of seniority
• ▹5+ years of industry experience building backend systems and APIs
• ▹Great skills in developing and debugging in TypeScript/Node.js, or the same in another programming language and the ability to learn quickly
• ▹Familiarity with Linux
• ▹Experiment-driven and collaborative mindset
• ▹Good communication skills in English

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with AWS, other public clouds and the technologies mentioned

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Space, support and autonomy for personal growth, with a direct impact on the company's success
• ▹Full-time position in Prague (Lucerna Palace) or Brno (Titanium), with the option to work remotely
• ▹Flexible working hours
• ▹Nobody counts holidays as long as the work gets done
• ▹Unlimited Claude for every employee
• ▹Stock options and profit sharing
• ▹Pets, kids and bikes welcome at the office
• ▹Team buildings and offsites
• ▹Education and training budget, conference tickets, internal Eat & Learn sessions, possibility to work across teams
• ▹Generous hardware budget
• ▹Free lunches every day in the office
• ▹Unlimited coffee, beer and snacks
• ▹Free entry to Prague Zoo
• ▹Free Multisport card
• ▹Ping-pong, chess, PS5, lightsabers, foosball league after lunch

About the company

Apify is the largest marketplace of tools for AI: 25,000 Actors help 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 earns more than $1 million every month. The company is built for developers by developers and publishes everything it can as open source on GitHub.