Remote Ruby Engineer - Web Scraping & Automation

SearchApi; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SearchApi is seeking a Ruby Engineer (Web Scraping) to join a remote, async-first team. You will own and evolve real-time SERP scraping workflows, fix parsers, and extend integrations across multiple engines while handling anti-bot challenges and CDP-related concerns.

You will collaborate cross-functionally, ship features frequently, and communicate progress to customers. This is a full-stack role that emphasizes ownership and rapid delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience with browser automation and anti-bot evasion in production systems.
• Strong full-stack development skills with focus on reliability and performance.
• Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new scraping targets and APIs.

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 and help them solve issues.

Skills

Browser automation

CDP internals

Anti-bot evasion

Concurrency

Infrastructure

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Ruby

Hotwire

TailwindCSS

PostgreSQL

Redis

Sidekiq

Terraform + AWS

Job description

SearchApi is seeking a Ruby Engineer (Web Scraping) to join a remote, async-first team. You will own and evolve real-time SERP scraping workflows, fix parsers, and extend integrations across multiple engines while handling anti-bot challenges and CDP-related concerns.

You will collaborate cross-functionally, ship features frequently, and communicate progress to customers. This is a full-stack role that emphasizes ownership and rapid delivery.