Ruby Web Scraping Engineer — Remote, High-Impact at Scale

SearchApi; Colombia; On-site; COP 291,658,564 - 486,097,608; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Equity share

Profit sharing

Learn fast

Annual team retreats

Job summary

SearchApi is hiring a Ruby Engineer focused on web scraping and browser automation. You’ll fix parsers, implement new search engine integrations, and reverse engineer protections while operating in a fast, remote team that serves billions of requests.

Ideal candidates bring deep Ruby on Rails experience, CDP internals knowledge, and strong written communication. You’ll own features end-to-end, mentor peers, and engage with customers and APIs daily.

Qualifications

• Strong Ruby on Rails experience and production-grade code delivery.
• Extensive browser automation and web scraping background.
• Experience with anti-bot evasion and CDN/infrastructure concepts.
• Proven ability to own complex features end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• 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 to understand APIs and websites scraped.
• Rotate on customer support and ship what is needed.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Browser automation

Web scraping

Anti-bot evasion

CDP internals

Concurrency

Written communication

Problem solving

Education

BSc or higher in CS or equivalent technical field

Tools

Puppeteer

Playwright

Job description

SearchApi is hiring a Ruby Engineer focused on web scraping and browser automation. You’ll fix parsers, implement new search engine integrations, and reverse engineer protections while operating in a fast, remote team that serves billions of requests.

Ideal candidates bring deep Ruby on Rails experience, CDP internals knowledge, and strong written communication. You’ll own features end-to-end, mentor peers, and engage with customers and APIs daily.