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# Team Lead for Actors (Node.js/TypeScript) at Apify Technologies s.r.o.

- **Company:** Apify Technologies s.r.o.
- **Location:** Prague, Czech Republic
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/apify/e02c02f0-0079-4e98-bb2b-d86257668b41

## Job description

Apify is the largest marketplace of tools for AI. 40,000+ 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 $1.2 million 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/.

To support this mission, we're looking for a Team Lead to join the Universe team. You'll build and scale the Actors that power AI use cases across Apify - including tools like Website Content Crawler https://apify.com/apify/website-content-crawler, which turns any website into clean data for AI models, vector databases, and RAG pipelines. If you care deeply about code quality, enjoy reverse-engineering how the web works, and want to shape the technical direction of a small, ambitious team - this is for you.

## WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON

- Building and scaling Website Content Crawler https://apify.com/apify/website-content-crawler and other core Actors that crawl any website reliably under real-world load. That means deep-crawling pages, stripping out the noise, and turning them into clean text, Markdown, and structured data that feed AI models, vector databases, and RAG pipelines, with a stack of AI tools doing the heavy lifting under the hood
- Working in a small, cross-functional team alongside other experienced hackers, a team you'll gradually take the lead of
- Contributing to Crawlee, Apify's open-source web scraping library, and stepping into product engineering when a project needs platform-level work. It won't be your day-to-day, but you'll jump in on these cross-team projects whenever they need a hand rather than handing the problem off
- Writing clean, elegant code that reads like a novel, and keeping it that way through reviews and refactoring
- Reverse-engineering how websites work behind the scenes, and designing APIs other developers love to use
- Using AI as a real part of the job, and building it too. AI is changing how web automation gets built, so you'll both put it to work day to day (writing code faster, prototyping, solving extraction problems that were impractical before) and help build the AI-powered tools that make the rest of the team and the wider community faster. You'll get a Claude Code license to do it
- Leading the Universe team. This is still a hands-on position where coding is an inseparable part of the job: you'll shape the technical direction, guide the team toward the right technical solutions, plan the technical work, unblock others, and keep building alongside the team

## WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

## MUST-HAVES

- You have experience leading a team or larger projects, formally or informally, and you want to grow in that direction. You like helping the people around you get things done, and you're OK making decisions and owning the outcomes
- You're strong in JavaScript and TypeScript (Node.js) and understand web technologies well
- You have at least 2 years of professional or open-source experience on a non-trivial project built with a team
- You treat code quality, readability, and frequent refactoring as part of getting the job done, not an afterthought
- You already use AI tools in your work and understand why they matter. You know where they help, where they don't, and you treat getting good at them as part of staying a strong engineer
- You have a problem-solving mindset and an appetite to keep learning, in web scraping, in leadership, and beyond
- You think in systems. You can design architecture, weigh trade-offs, and see how separate projects fit together into a coherent technical product
- You communicate clearly in English, in writing and in speech

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with the people side of leading: hiring, mentoring, running 1on1s, or giving feedback
- A track record of contributing to a non-trivial, user-facing product
- Writing and sharing what you learn through tutorials, technical support, or tooling
- Open-source contributions

## OUR TECH STACK - WEB AUTOMATION

- Development: Node.js (with TypeScript), Chrome Dev Tools https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/, Crawlee https://crawlee.dev/, Apify SDK https://sdk.apify.com/, Puppeteer https://pptr.dev/, Playwright https://playwright.dev/, jQuery https://jquery.com//Cheerio https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio + many other specialized libraries. We also released Python SDK https://docs.apify.com/sdk/python/ and are acquiring expertise in Python scraping tools.
- Environment: Local IDE for development & testing. Then deploy to the Apify platform via GitHub for production.
- Tools: GitHub, ZenHub, Notion, Google Workspace, and GitHub Copilot license.
- Process: In-depth onboarding, code reviews, tests, automating whatever we can, using common sense over strict processes.

Role-specific tools: Claude Code license for AI-assisted development.

BY THE END OF THE FIRST 3 MONTHS, WE EXPECT YOU TO:

- Understand the Universe team's codebase, architecture, and how its Actors connect to the broader Apify platform
- Ship at least one meaningful improvement to a core Actor (e.g., Website Content Crawler)
- Be doing code reviews independently and raising the bar in your PRs
- Have a working mental model of how browser automation, anti-bot systems, and data extraction fit together at scale
- Be taking on the first pieces of leadership: leading a smaller initiative and joining planning and prioritization
- Know the team well: how each person works, what they're strong at, and what they need from a lead
- Have a clear sense of where the biggest technical challenges and opportunities are for the team

BY THE END OF THE FIRST 6 MONTHS, WE EXPECT YOU TO:

- Have fully taken over the Universe team: planning, priorities, unblocking people, and representing the team across Apify are on you, while you stay hands-on in the code
- Have owned at least one major initiative end to end, from architecture decisions through shipping and iterating
- Be the go-to person for design decisions on the team's core tools
- Own the technical roadmap, shaping it with the team rather than executing someone else's
- Have contributed to Crawlee or another Apify open-source project in a meaningful way
- Have built or improved AI-powered tooling that makes the team or the wider community measurably faster

WHY SHOULD YOU WORK AT 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 100Yards 🏰
- Option to work remotely 🛋️
- Flexible working hours 🕰️
- 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 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 working from the office 🌮🥡
- Unlimited supply of ☕ & 🍺 and snacks
- Free entry to the wonderful Prague 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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