Engineering Manager for Web Automation team (Node.js/Typescript) at Apify

At Apify, we’re building the world's largest marketplace of AI tools, helping anyone - or anything - get more value from the web. Thousands of developers around the world build, publish, and monetize tools (we call them Actors) on Apify Store [Upgrade to PRO to see link] Solopreneurs, startups, and Fortune 500 companies use them to extract data from billions of web pages and automate millions of tasks every month. As AI agents take on more real work, Apify is becoming the place where both people and machines find the tools they need to act on the web. To support this mission, we're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager (EM) to lead our engineers in Professional Services [Upgrade to PRO to see link] - five specialized pods with around 15 engineers - delivering consulting and custom engineering work for our customers, plus a handful of internal projects. You'll partner with CTO Marek Trunkát [Upgrade to PRO to see link] and EM Vladimír Zahajský [Upgrade to PRO to see link] to shape how engineering scales as the organization grows. WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON: - You'll lead five specialized Pods (~15 engineers) in Apify Professional Services, delivering technical solutions to customers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. - You'll manage direct reports through regular 1on1s, career conversations, and growth plans, and give direct, constructive feedback that helps people grow. - You'll drive hiring - running technical interviews, evaluating candidates, and attracting strong talent to the team. - You'll uphold technical excellence across the pods - setting standards for delivery speed and code quality, and guiding architecture and tooling decisions together with your team leads and senior engineers. - You'll identify gaps and introduce better practices, tools, and methodologies to elevate the team's capabilities. - You'll partner closely with our Technical Consultants, who own customer communication and project scoping, to make sure delivery runs smoothly. - Together with the CTO and fellow Engineering Manager, you'll help define and implement processes across the engineering organization to support its growth. - You'll collaborate across Product, Sales, and Customer Success to keep delivery aligned with customer outcomes. WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR: - You've led an engineering team before and are comfortable owning people management at scale. - You have a solid technical background in Node.js / TypeScript - enough to reasonably evaluate technical decisions and discussions with your team. - You will play a key role in scaling AI integration across our workflows. We’re looking for someone who stays ahead of the curve and can help us identify and implement emerging AI tools to keep our team at the cutting edge - You have a track record of giving feedback that helps people grow, and a natural talent for building collaboration, guiding team members, and achieving results toward shared goals. - You have a passion for learning, continuous improvement, and supporting others. - You have strong English communication skills. Nice to have: - Familiarity with web scraping, browser automation, or data-extraction tooling. - Experience scaling an engineering function through a growth phase. BY THE END OF THE FIRST THREE MONTHS, WE EXPECT YOU TO: - Know your direct reports - their strengths, growth areas, and career goals - and have established a regular 1on1 rhythm. - Understand how each of the 5 pods operates, where the friction points are, and how delivery flows with Technical Consultants and customers. - Have identified the top two or three improvement areas (process, tooling, or team health) and started working on the first one. BY THE END OF THE FIRST SIX MONTHS, WE EXPECT YOU TO: - Run the pods smoothly - predictable delivery, healthy workload, no one burning out. - Have clear ownership at pod and individual level, with fewer things falling between the cracks. - Ship process improvements that are actually being adopted across the pods. - See developer satisfaction trending up measured in 1on1s, surveys, and retention. - Have hired and onboarded new engineers without quality regression. Our tech stack - Web Automation - Development: Node.js (with TypeScript), Chrome DevTools [Upgrade to PRO to see link] Crawlee [Upgrade to PRO to see link] Apify SDK [Upgrade to PRO to see link] Puppeteer [Upgrade to PRO to see link] Playwright [Upgrade to PRO to see link] jQuery [Upgrade to PRO to see link] [Upgrade to PRO to see link] + many other specialized libraries. We also released Python SDK [Upgrade to PRO to see link] 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. 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 [Upgrade to PRO to see link] located in Lucerna Palace, Prague, Czech Republic 🏰 - Option to work remotely 🛋️ - Flexible working hours 🕰️ - Zero bullshit policy - No Jira, no Okta, no Confluence, no quarterly estimates. Just GitHub, Goggle Workspace, Notion, Slack, and shipping stuff to production 🤝 - Nobody counts holidays as long as the work gets done 💪 - 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 is like to work with us, see our Careers page [Upgrade to PRO to see link]