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We power production workloads for Fortune 500 companies and fast-moving startups that need reliable search data at scale.\r\nWe're a lean, profitable, bootstrapped team. No VC pressure, no bloat. Just engineers shipping real products to real customers.\r\nWhy Join Us?\r\nOwn the product. You'll work across the entire codebase: billing, API, dashboard, enterprise features, and internal tools.\r\nHigh trust, high impact. The CEO/CTO currently reviews the hardest PRs; you'll take that over.\r\nShape the technical direction. Introduce better patterns, raise code quality, build compounding systems.\r\nWork directly with the CEO/CTO. No layers. Direct collaboration on product and technical decisions.\r\nBootstrapped and profitable. We answer to customers, not investors.\r\nValues\r\nWe do everything the Rails Way. If you don't like DHH's style, this may not be the place for you.\r\nWe embrace the one-person framework.\r\nWe hire Managers of One. 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