Ruby on Rails Engineer

Job Description

We are looking for engineers with different skill sets and experience levels. Whether you're focused on browser automation, concurrency, infrastructure, web scraping, or full-stack development, there’s a place for you. If you're unsure whether you fit, apply anyway—we value strong problem solvers.

At SearchApi, we build a real-time SERP API delivering structured search engine data from Google, Bing, Baidu, YouTube, Amazon, and more. Our team is small, fast-moving, and highly technical. We expect team members to take ownership of projects—shaping the direction, making decisions, talking to users when needed, and communicating progress.

Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails 7.2 (based on Jumpstart Pro)
• Ruby 3.3
• Hotwire (Stimulus.JS + Turbo)
• TailwindCSS (TailwindUI components)
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Sidekiq
• Terraform + AWS

We use GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, GitHub, Chrome Developer Tools, and Slack daily. We ship multiple times a day and have a CI/CD pipeline.

What You Will Do

• Fix broken parsers and maintain search engine scrapers
• Add new elements to existing search engines
• Develop and optimize new search engine integrations
• Improve and maintain documentation pages
• Enhance landing pages and internal admin dashboards
• Debug performance issues and optimize API request handling
• Reverse engineer website protections and browser-based anti-bot measures
• Improve browser automation for scraping and data extraction
• Enhance API monitoring by implementing real-time logging, analytics, and failure detection
• Develop open-source integrations and contribute to community projects

Additional responsibilities for Senior Engineers

• Lead technical decision-making and mentor junior engineers
• Improve browser automation and debug performance bottlenecks
• Optimize concurrency and enhance overall system performance
• Design and implement an embedded code viewer for structured API responses
• Handle complex challenges like browser fingerprinting and anti-bot protections
• Architect and develop new projects from scratch

Hiring Process

1. 45-minute interview call
2. Take-home coding challenge (1-4 hours)
3. Technical interview
4. Meeting team
5. Offer and reference check

Requirements

• Strong experience with Ruby on Rails
• Proficiency in web scraping, browser automation, and API integration
• Good knowledge of HTTP protocols, TLS, CSS selectors, XPath, and JavaScript
• Experience with proxy management, anti-bot detection, and fingerprinting evasion
• Fluent in English (written and spoken) for remote collaboration
• Self-starter mindset, ability to work autonomously in a remote-first environment
• BSc or higher degree in computer science or equivalent technical field, or strong proven experience

Bonus:

• Experience with Puppeteer, Playwright, or Selenium
• Knowledge of fingerprinting evasion techniques (Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, PerimeterX)
• Familiarity with DevOps tools like Terraform, AWS ECS, and Kubernetes
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or other monitoring solutions
• Experience handling millions of requests daily in SaaS or PaaS environments

Benefits

• 🏡 Fully Remote
• 💰 Local average salary + 20%
• 📈 Equity share
• 💵 Profit share
• 🧠 Learn a lot about SaaS business and gain vast experience by touching many parts and wearing multiple hats.

In the future, we want to introduce annual team retreats. 🏝️