About the role
We are looking for a Product Engineer with 3+ years of experience to own Firecrawl's flagship scrape endpoint — the product 100k+ developers already depend on to turn any URL into clean, LLM-ready data. You're a hands-on builder with deep scraping instincts and sharp product judgment who can make this the undisputed best-in-class developer tool on the market — no PM required.
What will you be doing?
- Own the /v1/scrape endpoint end-to-end — response format, latency, reliability, markdown quality, and every edge case
- Push the "just works" rate to unbeatable by tackling JavaScript-heavy SPAs, anti-bot walls, dynamic content, and other long-tail failure modes
- Iterate on structured extraction (schema-based, JSON mode, prompt-based) until developers stop writing their own post-processing
- Run fast product experiments — form a hypothesis, instrument it, ship it, measure it, and decide quickly
- Dogfood the API relentlessly and mine GitHub issues, Discord threads, and support tickets for product signal
Key Requirements
- 3+ years shipping developer-facing products, ideally in scraping, crawling, browser automation, or data infrastructure
- Deep hands-on knowledge of the messy web — headless browsers, anti-bot systems, JS rendering, stealth techniques
- Fluent in both product and engineering: you can write the API spec and implement it yourself without a PM
- Experience building on top of LLMs and strong intuitions about what makes data LLM-ready
- Production instincts — you've operated systems under real load and know how to make smart latency/quality/cost tradeoffs
