Ruby Engineer - Web Scraping; Remote

Be part of our team

Success comes from our dedicated team building top-quality product.

Full time

Remote

Search Api is a real-time SERP API delivering structured data from 100+ search engines and sources, including Google Search, Google Shopping, Google Jobs, Bing, Baidu, You Tube, 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.

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

100+ APIs
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Google, Bing, Baidu, You Tube, Amazon, and growing.

Open Source First
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Lang Chain, Hay Stack, Flowise, Lang Flow, Dify integrations.

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

Bootstrapped and Profitable
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We answer to customers, not investors.

We are searching for grinders who take ownership and move fast. At Search Api, 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.

We do everything the Rails Way. If you don't like DHH's style, this may not be the place for you.

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

• Ruby on Rails 8.1
• Ruby 3.4
• Redis
• Terraform + AWS
• Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Intercom, Git Hub, Chrome Developer Tools, Slack

• Add new elements to existing search engines.
• Build and ship new search engine integrations.
• Reverse engineer website protections and anti-bot systems.
• 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.
• Optimize concurrency: fibers, ractors, threads.
• 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.
• Grinder. You don't wait for instructions. You find work that matters and do it.
• Results-driven. You ship. You measure. You iterate.
• Strong work ethic. Startup pace. We work hard because that's how you win against incumbents.
• Passionate about Ruby & Ruby on Rails.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.
• BSc or higher in CS or equivalent technical field. We're building developer tools, strong technical foundations matter.

• CDP (Chrome Dev Tools Protocol) specialists.
• Anti-bot and evasion experts (Cloudflare, Akamai, Data Dome, Perimeter
  
  X).
• Concurrency experts: fibers, ractors, threads in Ruby.
• Experience at scale: billions of requests.

What makes a strong application:

Specific examples, not generic claims. Mention projects, technical challenges, tools you've used. If it looks copy-pasted, we won't read it.

Signals we look for:

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