Staff Product Engineer (Rails) - Remote, Equity & Impact

SearchApi; Ireland; Remote; EUR 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Equity

Profit sharing

Direct exposure to CEO/CTO

Annual team retreats

Job summary

SearchApi is seeking a senior Ruby on Rails engineer to act as the technical backbone of our product. You will own the hardest PRs, raise the codebase bar, and eventually lift technical load from the CEO. This is a hands-on, high-trust, non-management role across the entire product.

You will work remotely on a fully async, results-driven team. We value ownership, high code quality, and strategic thinking in a bootstrap-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Many years of Ruby on Rails experience; not a mid-level role.
• Proven track record building and shipping production Rails apps.
• Stripe payments experience and subscription logic familiarity.
• Product thinker who considers customer needs and rationale.
• Security-minded with awareness of common vulnerabilities.
• Up-to-date with Rails, Ruby, and AI developments.

Responsibilities

• Own the hardest PRs and perform complex refactors with senior judgment.
• Review peers' PRs and mentor through code reviews.
• Build enterprise features such as SAML, SCIM, and audit logs.
• Work on billing and payments and Stripe integrations.
• Create and iterate on product features and developer UX.
• Develop in-house algorithms and optimize performance.
• Ship frontend with TailwindCSS and maintain security standards.

Skills

Ruby on Rails expert

Production code shipping

System design thinking

Security-minded

English fluency

Performance debugging

Open-source mindset

Education

BSc or higher in CS

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Stripe payments

Job description

SearchApi is seeking a senior Ruby on Rails engineer to act as the technical backbone of our product. You will own the hardest PRs, raise the codebase bar, and eventually lift technical load from the CEO. This is a hands-on, high-trust, non-management role across the entire product.

You will work remotely on a fully async, results-driven team. We value ownership, high code quality, and strategic thinking in a bootstrap-driven environment.