💻 Tech Stack

• 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.

🤖 You Control AI, AI Doesn't Control You

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.

💪 What You'll Do

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.

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.
• Lead technical decisions and mentor engineers.

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

🔥 The Hard Parts

• 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.

✨ About You

• Grinder. You don't wait for instructions. You find work that matters and do it.
• Results-driven. You ship. You measure. You iterate.
• Great writer. Code, PRs, docs, customer messages. Writing is thinking.
• Strong work ethic. Startup pace.
• Specialist with range. We need depth in hard technical areas: 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 (Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, PerimeterX).
• Concurrency experts: fibers, ractors, threads in Ruby.
• Browser automation engineers (Puppeteer, Playwright internals).
• Network debugging (Wireshark, Burp Suite, Proxyman).
• TLS/JA3/WebRTC fingerprinting experience.
• Infrastructure: Terraform, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience at scale: billions of requests.

🔍 What We Look For

What makes a strong application: Specific examples, not generic claims. Mention projects, technical challenges, tools you've used.

🛠️ Hiring Process

• 45-minute interview call.
• Take-home coding challenge. 1-4 hours, realistic problem. 5-day deadline.
• Technical interview. 60 minutes, discuss your solution and go deeper.
• Meet the team. 30 minutes.
• Reference check + Offer

🎁 What You Get

• 🏡 Fully Remote. Work from anywhere.
• 📈 Equity share. Own a piece of what you're building.
• 💵 Profit sharing. When we win, you win.
• 🏝️ Annual team retreats.