We are looking for a senior Ruby on Rails engineer to become the technical backbone of our product. It's a hands‑on, high-trust position for someone who can ship production code across every part of the product.
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. Just engineers shipping real products to real customers.
Introduce better patterns, raise code quality, build compounding systems.
Bootstrapped and profitable. We do everything the Rails Way. We trust you to figure it out.
Remote‑only. Ruby on Rails 8.1
Ruby 3.4
JS + Turbo)
PostgreSQL
Redis
Sidekiq
Stripe
Terraform + AWS
You Control AI, AI Doesn't Control You
Complex features, tricky refactors, performance‑critical code. The stuff that requires senior judgment.
Work on billing and payments. Stripe integrations,



subscription logic, usage‑based billing.
Debug and optimize performance. You find the bottleneck and fix it.
Ship frontend with good design sense. Stay current with Rails and AI. Potentially gain production access and work with Terraform.
Lead new projects or pivots.
Billing, auth, API, frontend, infra.
Sometimes you'll decide what to build, not just how to build it.
Many years of Ruby on Rails experience. You've built and shipped production Rails apps.
Stripe experience. You've worked with Stripe billing, subscriptions, webhooks.
Not pixel‑perfect designer, but functional and polished.
You follow Rails releases, Ruby updates, AI developments. Comfortable with performance debugging. Memory profiling, flame graphs, query analysis. Fluent in English, written and spoken.
Terraform experience.
AWS infrastructure familiarity.
Open‑source contributions in the Rails ecosystem.
Depth in Rails. Stripe/

📌 Staff Product Engineer (España)
🏢 SearchApi
📍 España