Senior Backend Engineer for developer platform

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 https://blog.apify.com/fighting-child-traffickers-with-technology/, protect consumers from fake discounts across the EU https://blog.apify.com/how-web-scraping-ai-and-the-eu-have-come-together-to-sweep-away-fake-discounts-in-europe/, and feed data to AI chatbots https://blog.apify.com/intercom-customer-support-ai-chatbot-web-scraping/.

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 https://github.com/apify (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, a...