Lead Full-Stack Engineer

About Roame

Our mission is to make travel perfect. We empower everyone to search for flights using their credit card points and miles, which that are at least ($70 billion+ issued annually). By constantly monitoring available flight stock, we delight millions of users by finding them their dream flights and have saved members tens of millions in flights.

We are growing extremely quickly: Hundreds of thousands of users, many of which are paid — this is just the beginning.

Roame was part of Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 class.

The Role

We are hiring a Founding Full Stack Engineer team member with an owner mentality, can wear many hats, and is familiar with and interested in points or aviation/travel. With Roame, there is no limit to how much responsibility you can take from growth to operations to even product.

You will report directly to the CTO and work closely with the engineering team. This position is in San Francisco with at least 4 days in-office per week. You will own 110% of the frontend and backend API and even touch mobile.

Responsibilities:

This frontend engineer is our first product engineer hire. We are NextJS shop. You will work closely with everyone to implement changes based on company goals. We are design and technology first, we work backward from our goals (much like Apple), so balancing technical debt and engineering best practices is key. Being comfortable with ownership + failure is very important to us, the iOS app is 100% your responsibility and meeting product deadlines is crucial.

What are we looking for?

• Interested in the travel and credit card space, namely the world of credit card points and miles
• You own the frontend app development from end-to-end with no guidance needed. We expect you to push us to move faster
• We’re using NextJS on Vercel, Firebase, graphql for data backend, you should be able to hit the ground running and swift on mobile
• Good eye for design and then implementing it and reiterating it, keep pushing!
• Someone who’s used to very fast iteration cycles
• 3+ years of experience as an engineer (0-1 experience is great, but we want to see production experience); personal project counts (with large amounts of users counts!)
• Have shown initiative to start outside of job projects in the relevant field, we love seeing cool personal projects with scale
• Quick to pick up new ideas and knowledge
• 4 days in SF Office with Lunch

Why join Roame?

• Join us as we fundamentally change the world of travel and points
• Robust health, dental, and vision plans
• Access to Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Generous 401(k) plan with matching
• Access to commuter benefits
• Free lunch at the office in San Francisco
• Company offsites with travel in business class and at 5-star hotels (using points, of course)

Our company culture, or why you may or may not be excited about joining us:

Culture:

• A strong work ethic is a significant competitive advantage

  As a startup, we are trying to change the world and take on many large competitors. If this were easy, everyone would be doing it. Raw hours make a huge difference when facing overwhelming odds. We believe that having a strong work ethic is a competitive advantage, and we expect everyone at Roame to put in their best effort when they’re at work.

• Going above and beyond

  Have an idea? Disagree with folks (founders)? Action speaks orders of magnitude louder than words, show us. Speaking up is not for everyone, but building to prove/disprove is. Our job is to delight our customers, anything to make their lives magical is in line with our mission. We got here because lightning struck the same place multiple times, but not without taking the first step. We can’t resist passion especially when it grows greater than ours.

• Take ownership and be accountable

  We can rely on each member of the team to get their work done. When we say we'll do something - we get it done without anyone checking in on us. This way, we can establish a culture of trust and not micromanage each other. We are as strong as our weakest link and we aim to help one another to complete our tasks.

• Be Nice

  We’re a family here, be nice to each other. We follow radical candor to get things done, we are a no-passive-aggressive shop, truth is hard to swallow, doesn’t mean it has to be delivered with malice. Egos are left at home, kindness is how we support each other. We are always improving at this.

• No filibustering; Disagree and commit

  We can disagree and commit. Not all of our ideas will be implemented, and sometimes the group will decide to do something one of us disagrees with. We commit to getting it done even if we disagree with the decision. It's counterproductive to keep arguing and slow down implementation efforts; better to get it done quickly and see if it works instead of speculating otherwise.

1. An hour-long Phone Screen -> Basic Algorithms, Data Structures, and Architecture are all fair game. For Mobile, we care about past experiences and your lessons from them.
2. If all goes well with the phone screen, we would like to move on to another hour of experiences, where you present to the company a production-grade project you've worked on.
3. Culture Interview -> It's important you're passionate about what we do, and we want to make sure Roame is the best place for your career growth and your interests.
4. Offer stage