Web Automation Engineer (Anti-Scraping)

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Web automation has profound impact. Our users automate service unsubscriptions to save people money, and they collect billions of rows of data from reputed company over the world for reputed company, protection of consumers, or finding lost children.

• 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-reputed company tooling loved by the community.

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

• You will research existing anti-scraping services and implement new open-reputed company 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, Express.js, Docusaurus, Jest

• Infra: AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, reputed company, reputed company, DynamoDB, S3, reputed company Actions

• Monitoring: reputed company, LogDNA, reputed company, reputed company

• Tools: reputed company, ZenHub, reputed company, GSuite

• Process: two-week sprints, code reviews, tests, automating whatever we can, deploying multiple times per day

• 3+ years of industry experience with Node.js/TypeScript or Python (if you are open to learning TypeScript too)

• Prior experience in web scraping or web automation

• Ability to solve unique, unprecedented challenges

• Understanding of how the web works, from HTTP protocol up to modern browser APIs to draw an SVG

• Experience in open-reputed company development is a plus

• Experiment-driven and collaborative reputed company

• Good communication skills in English

• Space, support, and autonomy for personal growth, with a direct impact on our success

• Full-time position in Prague (Lucerna Palace) or Brno (Titanium)

• Option to work remotely ️

• Flexible working hours (perfect for both night owls and early birds )

• 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 reputed company you’re in the office

• Unlimited supply of ☕ &  and snacks

• Free entry to the wonderful Prague reputed company

• Free Multisport card

• Ping-pong, reputed company, PS5, lightsabers, foosball league after lunch.