Web Automation Engineer (Anti-Scraping)

Apify's mission is to make the web more programmable 💻.

Why? Because 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 a machine. 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 🚀.

To automate human activities on the web and proceed with our mission, we need robots that behave and act like real users, and this is where we need your help!

You will be part of one of our 5 product teams—the team that works on Apify’s open-source tooling loved by the community.

The team is led by Martin Adamek, co-author, and maintainer of Apify’s Crawlee and his own MikroORM framework.

You will research existing anti-scraping services and implement new open-source libraries or internal services to overcome them by utilizing various proxy services, browser fingerprinting methods, human-like browser interaction, session management, and others.

Our tech stack:

• Frontend: React.js, styled-components, Storybook, Cypress
• Backend: TypeScript/Node.js, Next.js, Nest.js, Docusaurus, Jest
• Infra: AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, GitHub Actions...
• Monitoring: New Relic, 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

You'll be a perfect match 💜➕💜 if you have:

• 3+ years of industry experience in Python or Node.js/TypeScript development
• You have prior experience in web scraping or web automation
• You are a hacker being able to solve unique, unprecedented challenges
• You know how the web works, from HTTP protocol up to modern browser APIs to draw an SVG
• 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

Hiring process

Intro call ☎️ → Home assignment 🧑🏼‍💻 → Interview ✍️ → Meeting with the team 🍕 → Offer 📄