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title: 'AI Engineer at Apify Technologies s.r.o.'
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# AI Engineer at Apify Technologies s.r.o.

- **Company:** Apify Technologies s.r.o.
- **Location:** Prague, Czech Republic
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/apify/1dbcda58-3795-4d4c-a5f8-83b515599e03

## Job description

Apify is the largest marketplace of tools for AI. On Apify Store https://apify.com/store, tens of thousands of Actors https://apify.com/actors, purpose-built tools for the web, help people and AI agents get real-time data, track competitors, generate leads, and connect apps. Anyone can build one and earn from it.

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/.

Working on our mission to build the largest marketplace of tools for AI, we're becoming one of the pioneers in MCP dynamic tool discovery and agentic payments via Coinbase's x402 standard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqQ5M1OKhrw, letting autonomous agents discover the right tools and pay for them on their own. Because we serve both humans and machines, we're also making natural language a first-class interface to the platform.

We stay close to where this is happening: we show our work at conferences like the AI Engineer World's Fair, where we spoke on the emerging agentic economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blW-lSd5CYQ, and the MCP Dev Summit; we host our own Prague Crawl, where Jan Curn made the case that "MCP doesn't suck, your agent does" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnbXQr1UQoM; and we regularly rotate people through San Francisco. We're looking for an AI Engineer to help build all of this. It's a small team with a lot of surface area, so you'll own real problems end-to-end.

## WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON:

- Build and maintain the Apify MCP Server, turning tens of thousands of Actors into tools that agents can reliably call.
- Keep the server ahead of a protocol that changes fast and often breaks: stateless transports, authorization hardening, and tool discovery.
- Shape the agent behind Apify AI, from the runtime it runs on to the tools it reaches and the rough edges that surface when it runs a full task end-to-end.
- Help autonomous agents discover and pay for Apify tools.
- Build evals that turn real production traces into tests, catch regressions in CI, and tell us whether a change made the product better or worse.

## WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

- 3+ years building real software, with backend experience in Node.js/TypeScript or Python.
- You've built something on top of LLMs and know the pain firsthand: tools the model calls wrong, context that balloons, agents that confidently do the wrong thing.
- Curious and self-directed: comfortable with loosely defined problems and keeping up with a field that changes every week.
- You use the Apify platform, or want to, and care about building tools other people enjoy using.
- Good communication skills in English.

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

WHY SHOULD YOU WORK AT APIFY?

- Space, support, and autonomy for personal growth, with a direct impact on our success
- Full-time position in our amazing offices in Prague (100Yards) or Brno (Titanium) 🏰
- Option to work fully 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 💰
- Free Multisport card
- We welcome pets, kids, and bikes in 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 working from the office 🌮🥡
- Unlimited supply of ☕ & 🍺 and snacks
- Free entry to the wonderful Prague and Brno Zoo 🐘
- Ping-pong, chess, PS5, lightsabers, 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.

## About Apify Technologies s.r.o.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Apify builds the world’s largest platform for web data extraction and browser automation, providing a marketplace of ready-made tools (Actors) and infrastructure for AI agents and developers to scrape, crawl, and structure web data at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding stage: Venture-backed; last known round: Venture Round in April 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Prague, Czechia (with an office in Brno)
- **Founded**: 2015 (Y Combinator Fellowship in Mountain View, California; company entity established in Czechia in 2016)
- **Founders**: Jan Čurn (CEO) and Jakub Balada (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Web data extraction, browser automation, AI infrastructure, developer tools
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily developers, data scientists, AI engineers, and enterprises (Siemens, Intercom, Groupon, Microsoft as customers); also serves startups and individual developers
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We're helping people get more value from the web, letting them automate mundane tasks and spend their time on things that matter. We strive to keep the web open as a public good and a basic right for everyone."

## Products & Services
- **Apify Platform**: A full-stack cloud platform for running serverless web scrapers and browser automations (called "Actors"). Handles infrastructure, proxies, scaling, and anti-blocking so users focus on data.
- **Apify Store**: A marketplace of 42,991+ ready-made Actors (as of mid-2025) for scraping social media, e-commerce, search engines, maps, travel sites, and more.
- **Apify Proxy**: A residential and datacenter proxy service that allows users to change IP addresses to avoid blocking during web scraping.
- **Apify API**: A RESTful HTTP API (version 2) for programmatic access to the platform, enabling integration with external tools and AI agents.
- **Integrations & MCP Support**: Integrates with n8n, Make, Zapier, LangChain, and supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) so AI agents can dynamically discover and use tools from the marketplace without custom code.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**:
  - **Annual Revenue**: Estimated USD 25–50 million (LinkedIn data, 2025)
  - **Total Funding**: USD 3.49 million (across 5 rounds: Y Combinator grant, seed rounds, and a 2024 venture round led by J&T Ventures)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: J&T Ventures (lead, 2024), Reflex Capital, INCOMMING ventures, Y Combinator. Partners include AAIF (Agentic AI Framework), European Startup Embassy, and the Linux Foundation (silver member advancing agentic AI standards).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 240 employees as of mid-2025 (+5% monthly headcount growth)
  - 58,000+ customers worldwide
  - Processes 1 PB+ of data monthly
  - LinkedIn follower growth of +20,768% year-over-year (to ~25,000)
  - Trusted by large enterprises: Siemens, Intercom, Groupon, Microsoft

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest Actor marketplace**: 42,991 ready-made scraping tools for virtually any website – a strong network effect (more users → more Actors → more value).
- **Anti-blocking technology**: Combined solutions (proxies, browser fingerprinting, CAPTCHA solving) that reliably extract data from sites with advanced anti-scraping protections.
- **AI-native infrastructure**: MCP support and integrations with LangChain/n8n make the platform a key data pipeline for generative AI – a high-growth tailwind.
- **Open-source & community ethos**: Strong developer community with transparent, hacker-friendly culture; supports open web principles.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI data pipelines**: Capitalizing on the generative AI boom by positioning Apify as the go-to source for high-quality, real-time web data for training and grounding AI models.
- **Platform expansion**: Growing the Actor marketplace, improving developer experience (documentation, SDKs), and deepening integrations with AI/automation tools (n8n, Make, Zapier, LangChain).
- **Enterprise adoption**: Targeting larger contracts with features like fraud prevention, proxy reliability, and compliance-ready infrastructure.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring across engineering, product, marketing, and support roles to scale the team and product.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Hackers at heart" – no politics, ownership over tasks, speed over perfection, transparency, and fun. Values: Open, Driven, Responsible, Flexible, Team.
- **Work model**: Flexible remote/hybrid – "Nobody tracks how long you work, when, and from where." Offices in Prague (Lucerna Palace loft) and Brno (Titanium business center). No fixed paid day-off limit (employees typically take ~25 days/year).
- **Compensation & perks**: Above-market salaries, profit-sharing, performance bonuses, stock options. Free lunches, unlimited snacks/coffee/beer, Multisport card, yoga, free entry to Prague Zoo. Generous hardware and education budget.
- **Engineering culture**: Node.js/TypeScript heavy, but stack-agnostic; focus on results, not hours. 87% of employees rate team-building events and offsites as "legendary."
- **Growth trajectory**: High-growth company (revenue $25–50M, 240 people) with strong AI tailwind – opportunity to have impact as an early/mid-stage employee.

## Sources
1. [apify.com/about](https://apify.com/about)
2. [apify.com/jobs](https://apify.com/jobs)
3. [apify.com](https://apify.com/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/apify](https://www.linkedin.com/company/apify)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/apify](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/apify)

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