Senior Backend Engineer, Publisher ecosystem

About this role

Apify is a marketplace of ready-to-run tools for AI that automate work on the web. Thousands of Actors get web data, generate leads, monitor social media, track competitors, and integrate with existing apps and agents. Actors are created by a global community of builders who earn from them, while Apify manages infrastructure, billing, and distribution. Learn more at apify.com http://apify.com.

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/.

Apify is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js/TypeScript). As a member of the Creators group, you'll be building a world-class ecosystem for community developers and builders to create, publish, and monetize their ideas as Actors on Apify. You will build tools and features that help them succeed in the ongoing AI revolution, utilize agentic coding and other agentic flows in their daily operations, and earn monthly payouts to support their living (collectively earning >$1.2M/month from usage of their Actors!).

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON:

- Own features and projects end-to-end, from the discovery phase through to production, and see them have a real impact on creators.

- Build the tools and features creators rely on to publish, monetize, and grow their Actors.

- Work in a small, cross-functional team, shipping in two-week sprints and deploying daily.

- Use the Apify platform yourself every day - we build for builders by builders - and take pride in making it better.

- Contribute to open source; we publish everything we can on GitHub https://github.com/apify (PRs are welcome 😉).

PUBLISHERS TEAM

The Publishers team builds everything a creator needs once they publish their Actor on Apify and make it available in Apify Store. They own our Actor monetization logic, analytics, review system, systems for maintaining Actor quality, and much more. By joining the Publishers team, you'll work on the next generation of tools and features that help creators around the world use AI to run a business and earn a living on Apify.

📍 Location: flexible, onsite in Prague for ~2 days/week at minimum

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

- 3+ years of industry experience building backend systems and APIs.

- Strong development and debugging skills in TypeScript/Node.js, or proficiency in another language, and the drive to learn TypeScript quickly.

- Hands-on experience with AI tools in your day-to-day work, and the drive to stay up to date with the latest trends.

- An experiment-driven, collaborative mindset.

- A strong technical background or a great professional track record.

- Good communication skills in English.

OUR TECH STACK:

- Frontend: React.js, styled-components, Storybook, Chromatic, Cypress, Playwright

- Backend: TypeScript/Node.js, Nest.js, Next.js, Docusaurus, Vitest

- Infra: AWS Compute (Kubernetes (EKS), EC2, Lambda), Helm, Terraform, CloudFormation, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, GitHub Actions

- Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Mezmo, Sentry, PagerDuty

- 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.

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 our amazing offices in Prague (100Yards) or Brno (Titanium) 🏰

- 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 💰

- Free Apify credits for your friends and family to try the platform 🎁

- 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 ☕ & 🍺 and snacks

- Free entry to the wonderful Prague Zoo 🐘

- Free Multisport card 🏋

- Regular massages in the Prague office, mostly covered by Apify 💆

- Ping-pong, chess, PS5, foosball league after lunch.

For more details about Apify and what it's like to work with us, see our Careers page https://apify.com/jobs.