Ruby Engineer - Web Scraping (Remote)

Ruby Engineer – Web Scraping (Remote)

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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.

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

Values

• We do everything the Rails Way. If you don’t like DHH’s style, this may not be the place for you.
• We embrace the one person framework.
• We hire Managers of One. We trust you to figure it out.
• Open Source contributor.
• Remote‑only. Async‑first. Results‑driven.
• Transparency. No politics.

Tech Stack

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

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 and help them figure things out.
• Rotate on customer support.
• Proactively update customers on progress and ship what they need.

Senior Engineer Responsibilities

• 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.

Hard Parts

• Things break without warning; debug production issues under pressure.
• No hand‑holding; you identify problems and fix them.
• Customer‑facing roles; rotate on support and communicate with customers.
• Small team, big scope; own work end‑to‑end.
• Written communication is essential.
• Fast pace; we ship daily and expect results, not activity.

About You

• Grinder; you don’t wait for instructions.
• Results‑driven; you ship, measure, iterate.
• Great writer; code, PRs, docs, customer messages.
• Strong work ethic in a startup pace.
• Specialist with a range; deep knowledge in CDP, anti‑bot, concurrency, browser internals.
• Passionate about Ruby & Ruby on Rails.
• Deep knowledge of web fundamentals: HTTP, TLS, CSS selectors, XPath, JavaScript.
• Experience with browser automation, scraping, and data extraction.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.
• BSc or higher in CS or equivalent technical field.

We’re Especially Looking For

• CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol) specialists.
• Anti‑bot and evasion experts.
• Concurrency experts: fibers, ractors, threads in Ruby.
• Browser automation engineers.
• Network debugging experts.
• TLS/JA3/WebRTC fingerprinting experience.
• Infrastructure: Terraform, AWS/ECS, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience at scale: billions of requests.

What We Look For

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:

• Stuff you personally built and shipped, not team achievements.
• CDP, anti‑bot, or browser automation expertise.
• Web scraping and reverse engineering.
• Technical articles or blog posts.
• Competitive programming.
• Meaningful open‑source contributions.

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Hiring Process

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

What You Get

• Fully Remote: Work from anywhere.
• Equity share.
• Profit sharing.