About Roame
Roame is a flight and hotel search engine for points and miles.
Booking business or first class with points instead of cash saves travelers thousands of dollars on a single trip. The hard part is finding the seats. Award space is scattered across dozens of airline and hotel programs, it moves constantly, and the best deals get taken. Doing it by hand means hours across a dozen browser tabs, and often days.
Roame finds those deals in seconds. Members also book hotels through us and get our commission rebated back to them immediately. Roame was founded by Tim and Zi. Tim spent the previous decade covering consumer and travel companies on the hedge fund side. Zi ran data encryption systems at Airbnb.
We started Roame after losing dozens of hours hunting for first class award space to Asia across a dozen browser tabs. Award travel is a data problem. Humans shouldn't have to solve it by hand.
Why join Roame now?
- Profitable. We run on revenue, not runway. We can start multi year technical work and actually finish it.
- Loved product. We're the default tool for a lot of the points and miles community, and our users are vocal about it.
- Scope. This is the top engineering role at the company. There is no larger org above it.
- AI native. A large share of our engineering is agent assisted and our whole workflow is built around it.
How we work
- Write it down before building it. Specs and architecture live in the repo.
- Test first. Most work starts from a written test plan.
- Ship in small increments. Days, not sprints.
- Nothing waits until tomorrow if it can go out today.
- Disagree out loud, early, to the person. Then pick something and move.
- No task is beneath anyone.
- Spoon feed yourself, learning is free, generate a video from the code and learn it