Ruby Engineer - Web Scraping

• Real Impact: Small team, massive scale. Your code runs in production serving billions of requests, powering tools you've probably used.

• 100+ APIs: Google, Bing, Baidu, YouTube, Amazon, and growing.

• Open Source First: LangChain, HayStack, Flowise, LangFlow, Dify integrations.

• Fortune 500 Customers: Our API powers production workloads, not just pilots and experiments.

• Bootstrapped and Profitable: We answer to customers, not investors.

We are searching for grinders who take ownership and move fast. At SearchApi, you shape the direction, make decisions, talk to customers, ship, and communicate progress. This is a full-stack role in every sense. You're part of building the product, not a cog in a machine.

• 📈 Equity share. Own a piece of what you're building.

• 💵 Profit sharing. When we win, you win.

• 🧠 Learn fast. Touch every part of a growing SaaS. Wear multiple hats. Ship real products to real customers.

• 🏝️ Annual team retreats (last one in Spain).

We are looking for engineers with deep technical skills in browser automation, CDP internals, anti-bot evasion, concurrency, or infrastructure. If you're not sure you fit but you're a strong problem solver, apply anyway.

To get a sense of what we ship, check out the SearchApi changelog. Here's what you'll do:

• Fix broken parsers under time pressure.

• Add new elements to existing search engines.

• Build and ship new search engine integrations.

• Reverse engineer website protections and anti-bot systems.

• Debug browser automation issues (CDP, fingerprinting, evasion).

• Create and improve documentation pages.

• Develop landing pages and admin dashboard features.

• Review PRs and help test.

• Talk to customers directly. Help them figure things out, brainstorm solutions, identify what's missing. Learn the APIs and websites we scrape yourself so you can actually help.

• Rotate on customer support. Everyone does it, including senior engineers.

• Proactively update customers on progress and ship what they need.

• Remote-only. Async-first. Results-driven.

• 🏡 Fully Remote. Work from anywhere.

• Ruby on Rails 8.1

• Ruby 3.4

• Hotwire (Stimulus.JS + Turbo)

• TailwindCSS (TailwindUI components)

• PostgreSQL

• Redis

• Sidekiq

• Terraform + AWS

We use Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Intercom, GitHub, Chrome Developer Tools, and Slack daily. We ship multiple times a day with CI/CD.

We ship faster because we use AI tools aggressively. Cursor and Claude. But you own the output. If you can't evaluate what AI produces, you're not ready for this role.

• Improve browser automation and debug performance at scale.

• Optimize concurrency: fibers, ractors, threads.

• Handle complex challenges: TLS fingerprinting, JA3, WebRTC, CDP internals.

• Improve API monitoring: logging, real-time analytics, anomaly detection.

• Architect and build new systems from scratch.

• Lead technical decisions and mentor engineers.

Eventually, you choose what to work on as you develop product intuition.

This role is not for everyone. Here's what makes it hard:

• Things break without warning. Search engines change layouts, anti-bot systems evolve, proxies fail. You'll debug production issues under pressure.

• No hand-holding. We don't assign tasks or write detailed specs. You identify problems and fix them.

• Customer-facing. You'll rotate on support. You'll talk to customers. You'll ship what they need and tell them when it's done.

• Small team, big scope. There's no one to hand things off to. You own it end-to-end.

• Written communication is everything. Remote-first means if you can't write clearly, you'll struggle.

• Fast pace. We ship daily. We expect results, not activity.

If you want predictable tasks, detailed documentation, and someone to tell you what to do, this isn't for you.