Why work at Apify?

We build software tools and cloud infrastructure that help individuals, startups, and the world’s largest companies make the most of the web—the largest source of information ever created. Join Apify to help us succeed and shape the future!

At heart, we’re hackers who always find a way forward, even if it doesn't look like there is one. We work with talented colleagues in a friendly, inspiring, and no-bullshit environment. We respect people's time and don’t like wasting it. We like to get things done and have fun in the process. We're building the company that we always wanted to work for.

If you're wondering what it's like to work at Apify, read stories from our colleagues on the Apify Blog →

Our story

Apify was launched by Jan Čurn and Jakub Balada in 2015 from the Y Combinator Fellowship in Mountain View, California. The original idea was to make it easy for developers to build flexible and scalable web crawlers simply using front-end JavaScript, thanks to the then new headless browser technology.

Built with ❤️ and 🍺 in Prague

In 2016, the team moved back to the Czech Republic, raised a seed investment, and started building a company around its product. Soon it became obvious that customers’ use cases need more than a simple JavaScript crawler, so we committed to building the most flexible full-stack platform for web scraping and browser automation.

We work in newly renovated premises in Lucerna Palace —a 700 sqm loft on the 7th and 8th floors, which used to be a private atelier and the apartment of Vácslav Havel, the founder of Lucerna and the grandfather of the first Czech president. Our office is pet-, bicycle-, kid- and gamer-friendly, featuring ping-pong, PS5, foosball, a sound system, and more.

We regularly host engaging public meetups, talks, and conferences, so you certainly won’t be bored!

See some pics from Apify events →

Go global or go home!

Although Apify is headquartered in Prague, our clients come from all around the world, mostly the US. From non-profits like Thorn (which uses Apify to find missing children) to Y Combinator startups and large enterprises and Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft or Eaton Corporation, we help our clients improve their products, marketing, business decisions, and AI/LLM tools, using structured data from the web. We also participate in domestic non-profit projects like Hlídač Shopů, whose technology has recently been used and adapted by the European Commission to track fake discounts!

Apify is trusted by:

As seen on the interweb

Apify has been featured by HackerNoon, HackerNews, CzechCrunch, Lupa and many others. We were the first Czech company to go through the Y Combinator Fellowship and have been named one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times. Our founders are active software developers and MatFyz alumni (with lots of love for their peers from other universities, ČVUT in particular). And last but not least, our customers love us too:

You can discover more about Apify and find job opportunities not listed here (such as full-stack dev) at apify.com/jobs →

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