Senior Backend Engineer for developer platform

Backend Engineer Opportunity

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.

What You'll Be Working On?

• 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'll 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:

• Infra: AWS Compute (Kubernetes (EKS), EC2, Lambda), Helm, Terraform, CloudFormation, ArgoCD, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, GitHub Actions
• Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Mezmo, Sentry, PagerDuty
• Frontend: React.js, styled-components, Storybook, Chromatic, Cypress, Playwright
• Backend: TypeScript/Node.js, Nest.js, Next.js, Docusaurus, Vitest
• Tools: GitHub, Notion, Google Workspace, Slack
• OS, code editor, and AI assistant of your choice (Claude premium with unlimited tokens, GH Copilot, Cursor, Gemini, or JetBrains AI)
• Process: two-week sprints, code reviews, tests, automating whatever we can, and deploying multiple times per day.

Who We're Looking For:

• A strong technical background or a great professional track record. We are looking for exceptional candidates no matter the seniority.
• 5+ 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 At Apify?

• Space, support, and autonomy for personal growth, with a direct impact on Apify's success.
• Full-time position in Prague (Lucerna Palace) or Brno (Titanium).
• Option to work remotely.
• Flexible working hours (perfect for both night owls and early birds).
• 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.
• 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 you're in the office.
• Unlimited supply of coffee and snacks.
• Free entry to the wonderful Prague Zoo.
• Free Multisport card.
• Ping-pong, chess, PS5, lightsabers, foosball league after lunch.