Roame (YC S23)
Founding Frontend Engineer
Roame (YC S23), San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
About Roame
Our mission is to make travel perfect. We empower everyone to search for flights using their credit card points and miles, which 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 Frontend Engineer team member who has an owner mentality, can wear many hats, and is familiar 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.
Responsibilities
This frontend engineer is our first product engineer hire. We are a 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 and 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 milesYou own the frontend app development from end-to-end with no guidance needed. We expect you to push us to move fasterWe’re using NextJS on Vercel, Firebase, graphql for data backend; you should be able to hit the ground runningGood eye for design and then implementing it and reiterating it, keep pushing!Someone who’s used to very fast iteration cycles3+ years of experience as an engineer (0-1 experience is great, but we want to see production experience); personal projects count (with large amounts of users!)Have shown initiative to start outside of job projects in the relevant field; we love seeing cool personal projects with scaleQuick to pick up new ideas and knowledge4 days in SF Office
Why join Roame?
Join us as we fundamentally change the world of travel and pointsRobust health, dental, and vision plansAccess to Flexible Spending Account (FSA)Generous 401(k) plan with matchingAccess to commuter benefitsFree lunch at the office in San FranciscoCompany 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
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, and 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. Even if we disagree with the decision, we commit to getting it done. It's counterproductive to keep arguing and slow down implementation efforts; better to get it done quickly and see if it actually works instead of speculating otherwise.#J-18808-Ljbffr
Our mission is to make travel perfect. We empower everyone to search for flights using their credit card points and miles, which 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 Frontend Engineer team member who has an owner mentality, can wear many hats, and is familiar 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.
Responsibilities
This frontend engineer is our first product engineer hire. We are a 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 and 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 milesYou own the frontend app development from end-to-end with no guidance needed. We expect you to push us to move fasterWe’re using NextJS on Vercel, Firebase, graphql for data backend; you should be able to hit the ground runningGood eye for design and then implementing it and reiterating it, keep pushing!Someone who’s used to very fast iteration cycles3+ years of experience as an engineer (0-1 experience is great, but we want to see production experience); personal projects count (with large amounts of users!)Have shown initiative to start outside of job projects in the relevant field; we love seeing cool personal projects with scaleQuick to pick up new ideas and knowledge4 days in SF Office
Why join Roame?
Join us as we fundamentally change the world of travel and pointsRobust health, dental, and vision plansAccess to Flexible Spending Account (FSA)Generous 401(k) plan with matchingAccess to commuter benefitsFree lunch at the office in San FranciscoCompany 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
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, and 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. Even if we disagree with the decision, we commit to getting it done. It's counterproductive to keep arguing and slow down implementation efforts; better to get it done quickly and see if it actually works instead of speculating otherwise.#J-18808-Ljbffr