Staff Product Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

SearchApi

Sweden

Remote

SEK 1,858,736 - 2,323,420

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity share

Profit sharing

Fully remote work

Annual team retreats

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Sweden is looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer to own and manage challenging PRs and enhance the code quality across the product line. This hands-on position allows you to work directly with the CEO/CTO, contributing to significant technical decisions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Rails and Stripe, with a strong commitment to best practices and innovation. Enjoy a fully remote and flexible work environment with competitive compensation.

Qualifications

Many years of experience with Ruby on Rails, shipping production apps.
Experience with Stripe billing, subscriptions, and webhooks.
Comfortable with performance debugging techniques.

Responsibilities

Own complex PRs and enhance code quality.
Mentor junior engineers through code review.
Work on billing and payments integration.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Stripe

Performance debugging

Good design sense

Security awareness

Education

BSc or higher in Computer Science or equivalent technical field

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Staff Product Engineer (Ruby on Rails) – SearchApi

We’re looking for a senior Ruby on Rails engineer to become the technical backbone of our product. You'll own the hardest PRs, raise the bar for the entire codebase, and eventually take technical load off the CEO. This is not a management role. It's a hands‑on, high‑trust position for someone who can ship production code across every part of the product.

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?

Own the product. You'll work across the entire codebase—billing, API, dashboard, enterprise features, internal tools. Everything.
High trust, high impact. The CEO/CTO currently reviews the hardest PRs. You'll take that over.
Shape the technical direction. Introduce better patterns, raise code quality, build compounding systems.
Work directly with the CEO/CTO. No layers. Direct collaboration on product and technical decisions.
Bootstrapped and profitable. We answer to customers, not investors.

SearchApi 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.
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
Stripe
Terraform + AWS

What You’ll Do

Own the hardest PRs—complex features, tricky refactors, performance‑critical code that requires senior judgment.
Review other engineers’ PRs. Raise the bar. Catch issues before they ship. Mentor through code review.
Build enterprise features. SAML, SCIM, audit logs, permissions. Whatever enterprise customers need.
Work on billing and payments. Stripe integrations, subscription logic, usage‑based billing.
Create and iterate on product features—API playground, dashboard improvements, developer experience.
Develop in‑house algorithms. We build custom solutions. You’ll design and implement them.
Debug and optimise performance. Memory profiling, CPU profiling, query optimisation.
Work with native gems and low‑level bindings when needed.
Ship frontend with good design sense. We use TailwindUI.
Maintain security standards. Review code with security in mind.
Stay current with Rails and AI. Adopt new features that add lasting value.

As You Grow Into the Role

Oversee other engineers' work.
Make architectural decisions.
Potentially gain production access and work with Terraform.
Lead new projects or pivots.

The Hard Parts

Broad scope—touch everything: billing, auth, API, frontend, infra.
High bar—your code must be excellent.
Ambiguity—sometimes you decide what to build, not just how to build it.
Responsibility—when you ship something, you own the outcome.
Fast pace—we ship daily and expect results, not activity.

About You

Many years of Ruby on Rails experience; you’ve built and shipped production Rails apps.
Proven track record—able to point to systems you built, problems you solved, code you’re proud of.
Stripe experience—required. You’ve worked with Stripe billing, subscriptions, webhooks.
Product thinker—you think about what customers need and why.
Good design sense—ship clean UI with TailwindCSS.
Security‑minded—understand authentication, authorization, common vulnerabilities.
Up‑to‑date—follow Rails releases, Ruby updates, AI developments.
Compounding mindset—look for improvements that pay dividends over time.
Comfortable with performance debugging—memory profiling, flame graphs, query analysis.
Great writer—PRs, docs, code comments; clear communication matters.
Self‑directed—no daily stand‑ups needed.
Fluent in English, written and spoken.
BSc or higher in CS or equivalent technical field.

Nice to Have

Terraform experience.
AWS infrastructure familiarity.
Experience at scale (billions of requests).
Open‑source contributions in the Rails ecosystem.

What We Look For

We want to see what you personally built and shipped, not team achievements. Hard problems you solved. PRs you’re proud of. We’ll evaluate the quality of your work, not your résumé.

Signals we look for: depth in Rails, Stripe/payments experience, technical blog posts, open‑source contributions, evidence of product thinking, long tenure at companies.

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