Staff Ruby on Rails Product Engineer at SearchApi

Role overview

SearchApi seeks a hands-on staff engineer to improve its Ruby on Rails product across APIs, billing, authentication, dashboards and frontend work. The posting describes an individual contributor who sets a high code-review standard and takes ownership of difficult production changes. It lists remote work from Vietnam.

Responsibilities

• Implement complex features, refactors and performance-critical changes and review other engineers’ pull requests.
• Build enterprise capabilities such as SAML, SCIM, audit logs and permissions.
• Maintain Stripe subscriptions, webhooks and usage-based billing logic.
• Improve API playgrounds, dashboards and developer experience, including usable interfaces built with Tailwind.
• Profile memory, CPU and database queries, address bottlenecks, work with native gems when needed and review security.

Qualifications

• Extensive production Ruby on Rails experience and evidence of systems personally built and shipped.
• Required Stripe experience with subscriptions, payments and webhooks.
• Product judgement, authentication and authorisation knowledge, practical UI design and performance debugging.
• Clear English writing, independent work and a computer science degree or equivalent background.
• Terraform, AWS, large-scale services and Rails open-source contributions are useful additional experience.

Technology in this role

• AWS: Terraform, AWS, large-scale services and Rails open-source contributions are useful additional .
• C: Different architectures, compilation issues, C .
• Go: 60 minutes, go deep on your solution and past .
• Ruby on Rails: SearchApi seeks a hands-on staff engineer to improve its Ruby on Rails product across APIs, billing, authentication, dashboards and frontend .
• Ruby: SearchApi seeks a hands-on staff engineer to improve its Ruby on Rails product across APIs, billing, authentication, dashboards and frontend .
• PostgreSQL: Listed by the employer as part of the role’s technical requirements.
• Redis: Listed by the employer as part of the role’s technical requirements.
• Terraform: Terraform, AWS, large-scale services and Rails open-source contributions are useful additional .
• CI/CD: We ship multiple times a day with .
• CAN: It's a hands-on, high-trust position for someone who can ship production code across every part of the .
• Rails: SearchApi seeks a hands-on staff engineer to improve its Ruby on Rails product across APIs, billing, authentication, dashboards and frontend .
• SAML: Build enterprise capabilities such as SAML, SCIM, audit logs and .

Role-specific candidate guide

Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.

Understanding the scope. This Staff Product Engineer (Ruby on Rails) position at SearchApi is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “SearchApi seeks a hands-on staff engineer to improve its Ruby on Rails product across APIs, billing, authentication, dashboards and frontend work. The posting describes an individual contributor who sets a high…” Read that statement together with the responsibilities below to understand the likely balance between delivery, coordination and technical decision-making. The role belongs to the technical area, but that label is only a guide to the work; the employer’s own requirements remain decisive. Before applying, check the original listing for reporting lines, product or team assignment, employment terms and any details that may have changed since this copy was checked. Where this page says a fact is not specified, treat it as an open question rather than an implied promise.

What the responsibilities signal. The posting specifically names “Implement complex features, refactors and performance-critical changes and review other engineers’ pull requests.”; “Build enterprise capabilities such as SAML, SCIM, audit logs and permissions.”; “Maintain Stripe subscriptions, webhooks and usage-based billing logic.”. For each duty, identify a project where you performed comparable work and be ready to describe the context, your own contribution, constraints, decisions, and measurable result. Explain how you moved from the initial need to implementation, review, release or operational follow-through, where those stages apply. If the work involved other teams or users, distinguish your decisions from the group’s contribution. Avoid presenting a technology keyword as proof by itself: connect it to the problem you solved, the scale or complexity involved, and what changed after your work. The source may contain additional duties; review it directly before preparing your application.

How to read the requirements. The listed qualifications include “Extensive production Ruby on Rails experience and evidence of systems personally built and shipped.”; “Required Stripe experience with subscriptions, payments and webhooks.”; “Product judgement, authentication and authorisation knowledge, practical UI design and performance debugging.”. Mark each requirement as demonstrated, adjacent experience or a genuine gap, then use a concise example for the first two categories. A strong example explains what you personally owned, how you made trade-offs, how you validated the result and what you learned. If the posting specifies years of experience, language ability, certifications, location or eligibility, address those facts plainly in your CV or application rather than relying on the employer to infer them. Do not claim a qualification from exposure alone. For a requirement you do not meet, describe relevant transferable experience accurately and ask the recruiter whether it is mandatory.

Technology and.

Benefits

• The employer lists fully remote work, equity, profit sharing, learning across a growing SaaS product and periodic team retreats.

About SearchApi

SearchApi provides an API for structured, real-time data from web search, shopping, video and other search sources. Its posting describes a small, remote-first engineering team building a Ruby on Rails product.

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