Roame is a flight and hotel search engine that finds award flights and hotel redemptions across airline and hotel loyalty programs, turning credit card points and miles into high-value bookings. Founded by Tim (formerly covering consumer and travel companies on the hedge fund side) and Zi (who ran data encryption systems at Airbnb), the product automates what otherwise takes users hours across many tabs and rebates hotel commissions immediately. The startup is YC S23‑backed, revenue-positive, beloved by a vocal points-and-miles community, and operates with a small founding team and an existing iOS client.
The Lead Full‑Stack Engineer will be the senior technical hire, owning engineering direction across a Go backend and a TypeScript/React (Next.js) web app, finishing a migration to a modern Go service architecture, and owning correctness where money moves (booking, checkout, payments). The role emphasizes specs, test-first workflows, small incremental shipping, and AI-assisted development practices. Candidates should have 4-6+ years of experience, strong Go skills, distributed systems and production money-moving experience, and a track record of finishing hard migrations. Compensation is $175-250k base plus 0.5-2% equity, US remote with work authorization required, and the interview process includes founder chats and a paid one-to-three month trial to prove ownership and product obsession.
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DHH states that agents implemented and optimized the Campfire web app in Elixir, Go, and Rust, with Ruby being the slowest. He emphasizes that productivity and developer joy outweighed speed concerns, but notes that maintainability is important when reading code becomes difficult. (twitter.com)
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