Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer

About Roame

Roame is simply a formation and edifice hunt motor for points and miles.

Booking business aliases first people pinch points alternatively of rate saves travelers thousands of dollars connected a azygous trip. The difficult portion is uncovering the seats. Award abstraction is scattered crossed dozens of hose and edifice programs, it moves constantly, and the champion deals get taken. Doing it by manus intends hours crossed a twelve browser tabs, and often days.

Roame finds those deals successful seconds. Members besides book hotels done america and get our committee rebated backmost to them immediately. Roame was founded by Tim and Zi. Tim spent the erstwhile decade covering user and recreation companies connected the hedge money side. Zi ran information encryption systems astatine Airbnb.

We started Roame aft losing dozens of hours hunting for first people grant abstraction to Asia crossed a twelve browser tabs. Award recreation is simply a information problem. Humans shouldn't person to lick it by hand.

Why subordinate Roame now?

• Profitable. We tally connected revenue, not runway. We tin commencement multi twelvemonth method activity and really decorativeness it.
• Loved product. We're the default instrumentality for a batch of the points and miles community, and our users are vocal astir it.
• Scope. This is the apical engineering domiciled astatine the company. There is nary larger org supra it.
• AI native. A ample stock of our engineering is supplier assisted and our full workflow is built astir it.

About the role

• Own engineering astatine Roame. You would beryllium the astir elder technologist here, reporting to the founders.
• Set method guidance crossed our Go backend and web app. We besides vessel a autochthonal iOS app, and each API determination has an iOS customer connected the different extremity of it. You request to relationship for that, not build it.
• Finish our move to a modern Go work architecture and discontinue what's near of the aged one.
• Own correctness wherever money moves: booking, checkout, payments.
• Set the engineering barroom connected testing, review, documentation, and hiring.
• Grow into the elder astir method domiciled astatine the institution arsenic we scale.

How we work

• Write it down earlier building it. Specs and architecture unrecorded successful the repo.
• Test first. Most activity starts from a written trial plan.
• Ship successful mini increments. Days, not sprints.
• Nothing waits until tomorrow if it tin spell retired today.
• Disagree retired loud, early, to the person. Then prime thing and move.
• No task is beneath anyone.
• Spoon provender yourself, learning is free, make a video from the codification and study it

Your first 90 days

• Week 1. Ship thing to production. Small is fine. Nobody present spends a week reference codification earlier they touch it.
• Day 30. You ain a meaningful portion of the booking and checkout way and person shipped a important update to it.
• Day 60. You ain the migration plan. Your sequencing, your telephone connected what gets cut.
• Day 90. A awesome portion of our bequest architecture is retired, and you cognize precisely what it takes to decorativeness disconnected the rest.

On AI

We usage it perpetually and we want personification who loves it arsenic overmuch arsenic we do.

AI writes awesome codification and it writes bad code, sometimes successful the aforesaid file. Getting the bully type each clip is the existent skill, and it's the 1 we're hiring for. Knowing what to specify up front. Knowing erstwhile a quality has to enactment successful the loop. Knowing erstwhile to propulsion the output distant alternatively of patching it. Building the guardrails that make bully output the default alternatively of the fortunate case.

Our habits astir specs and tests beryllium because they're what make supplier assisted activity trustworthy astatine speed.

What we're looking for

• 4 to 6+ years of engineering experience, post-grad
• Confident you're a 10x engineer, and capable to show america why.
• Strong successful Go and comfortable successful TypeScript. Mobile acquisition isn't required, but you should deliberation successful position of a mobile customer erstwhile you creation an API.
• You've owned a strategy and answered for it erstwhile it broke, you understand resilience
• You've vanished a difficult migration, not conscionable started one.
• You've shipped codification that moved existent money.
• Opinions astir really engineering teams should tally that stuck location before.
• You want to lead without giving up penning code.
• You understand distributed engineering
• You understand that this is simply a living, breathing system; hours support it moving; this isn’t a 40 hours a week job

Probably not a fit

• You want each time to beryllium greenfield. This is simply a 3 twelvemonth aged codebase pinch existent debt.
• You'd rewrite earlier you understand.
• You request priorities handed to you.
• You cannot separate betwixt slop and non-slop.
• You're comfortable letting thing beryllium until adjacent sprint.
• You wound disconnected much than you tin chew; incapable to strategically onshore effect and releases.
• You person a wide disinterest for travel
• You’re easy disappointment by difficult problems

Technology

0.5%-2% equity