Staff product engineer ruby on rails

We are 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.

We are searching for someone who can eventually replace the CEO/CTO's technical load. Not a manager. A builder who ships with an extremely high bar.

🛡️ 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

We use Cursor, Claude, ChatGP