Ruby Engineer - Web Scraping

About SearchApi

SearchApi is a real-time SERP API delivering structured data from 100+ search engines and sources, including Google Search, Google Shopping, Google Jobs, Bing, Baidu, YouTube, Amazon, and many more. We power production workloads for Fortune 500 companies and fast-moving startups who need reliable search data at scale.

We're a lean, profitable, bootstrapped team. No VC pressure, no bloat. Just engineers shipping real products to real customers.

🎯 Why Join Us?

• Real Impact: Small team, massive scale. Your code runs in production serving billions of requests.
• 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 at scale.
• Bootstrapped and Profitable: We answer to customers, not investors.

🛡️ SearchApi Values

• We do everything the Rails Way.
• We embrace the one person framework.
• We hire Managers of One.
• Remote-only, async-first, and results-driven.
• Transparency with zero politics.

💻 Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails 8.1
• Ruby 3.4
• Hotwire (Stimulus.JS + Turbo)
• TailwindCSS
• PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq
• Terraform + AWS

💪 What You'll Do

• Fix broken parsers under time pressure.
• Add new elements to existing search engines and build new integrations.
• Reverse engineer website protections and anti-bot systems.
• Debug browser automation issues (CDP, fingerprinting, evasion).
• Develop landing pages and admin dashboard features.
• Review PRs and help test.
• Talk to customers directly and rotate on customer support.

For Senior Engineers

• 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 and mentor engineers.

✨ About You

• Grinder: You find work that matters and execute without waiting for instructions.
• Results-driven: You ship, measure, and iterate.
• Great writer: Clear written communication for code, PRs, docs, and customers.
• Strong work ethic and startup pace.
• Specialist with technical depth in hard areas: CDP, anti-bot, concurrency, browser internals.
• Passionate about Ruby & Ruby on Rails with deep knowledge of web fundamentals (HTTP, TLS, CSS selectors, XPath, JavaScript).
• Experience with browser automation, scraping, and data extraction.

🎁 What You Get

• Fully Remote work environment.
• Equity share in the company.
• Profit sharing.
• Annual team retreats.

🛠️ Hiring Process

1. 45-minute interview call.
2. Take-home coding challenge (1-4 hours, 5-day deadline).
3. Technical interview (60 minutes).
4. Meet the team (30 minutes).
5. Reference check & Offer.