Firecrawl

The easiest way to extract AI ready data from the web

Founding Web Automation Engineer

$100K - $150K / 0.50% - 1.00%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.
Apply to role ›
Caleb Peffer
Caleb Peffer
Founder

About the role

Founding Web Scraping & Automation Engineer

As a founding web automation engineer, you will be one of the architects of our web scraping and agent infrastructure. You’ll work closely with the founders to implement and experiment with new techniques on the cutting edge of browser automation. You will experiment with applying SOTA and open**-**source models to generalize web extraction at scale.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Have a deep understanding of headless browsers and web scraping.
  • Are fascinated by AI and demonstrate this through experience with AI side projects.
  • Are you looking for a challenge to pour your passion into

Our Core Values:

  • Show respect: We value the golden rule, treating others with the utmost respect.
  • Built to learn: Our team thrives on learning from surprises and challenges.
  • Bias for action: We encourage taking necessary actions and decisions, even with incomplete information.
  • Act like an owner: Treat Firecrawl like your own.
  • Hacker mindset: Problem-solving is in our DNA; we value creative solutions and ingenuity.

Qualifications:

  • A minimum of 3 years of experience in development
  • Proficiency with advanced web automation, including topics such as
    • Web scraping with web driver frameworks (I.E. Playwright, Puppetear, Selenium)
    • LLM Agents

Candidates with an Edge:

  • Experience with advanced web automation topics, such as:
    • Rotating Proxies
    • Bot Fingerprinting

About the interview

Thank you for your interest in joining Wolfia! We value your time and have designed our interview process to be thorough yet respectful of your schedule. Our process consists of 2.5 hours of interviews (either in-person or via video conferencing) and a 2-3 hour take-home challenge.

Round 1 - 15 min interview to talk about your background, personal goals, and how they align with the challenges we face at Firecrawl

Round 2 - 1 hour interview to talk about your technical experience
Round 3 - 2-3 hour Take home challenge to test coding and problem-solving skills
Round 4 - 1 hour Review and culture fit interview

If it all goes well, a job offer with compensation and benefits will be sent immediately.

About Firecrawl

Mendable is building an AI second brain for GTM teams.

Our customers include MongoDB, Doordash, Snapchat, and Coinbase - where we're helping teams with an LLM assistant that answers questions and automates tasks - all built atop a constantly improving company knowledgebase.

Firecrawl
Founded:2022
Team Size:4
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Eric Ciarla
Eric Ciarla
Founder
Caleb Peffer
Caleb Peffer
Founder
Nicolas Silberstein Camara
Nicolas Silberstein Camara
Founder