Remote Ruby Engineer — Web Scraping & Anti-Bot Tech

SearchApi; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Equity share

Profit sharing

Learn fast

Annual team retreats

Job summary

SearchApi is seeking a Ruby Engineer (Web Scraping) for a remote role. You will fix parsers, add engines, and build integrations while reverse engineering protections and debugging CDP-related tasks. You’ll join a lean, bootstrapped team delivering real data at scale.

Ideal candidates excel in browser automation, concurrency, and data extraction, with strong writing skills and a proactive mindset. Join us to work with Ruby on Rails, Terraform, AWS, and a distributed, async-first culture.

Qualifications

• Experience with browser automation, scraping, and data extraction.
• Excellent written communication and the ability to explain complex topics clearly.
• Fluent in English, able to collaborate across a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Fix broken parsers under time pressure and add new elements to engines.
• Build and ship new search engine integrations and improvements.
• Reverse engineer website protections and anti-bot systems; debug browser automation (CDP, fingerprinting).
• Create and improve documentation pages and admin/dashboard features.
• Review PRs, test thoroughly, and talk to customers to understand needs.

Skills

Ruby

Rails

Browser automation

Web scraping

CDP internals

Anti-bot

Concurrency

Infrastructure

Tools

Terraform

AWS

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

SearchApi is seeking a Ruby Engineer (Web Scraping) for a remote role. You will fix parsers, add engines, and build integrations while reverse engineering protections and debugging CDP-related tasks. You’ll join a lean, bootstrapped team delivering real data at scale.

Ideal candidates excel in browser automation, concurrency, and data extraction, with strong writing skills and a proactive mindset. Join us to work with Ruby on Rails, Terraform, AWS, and a distributed, async-first culture.