Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer
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. Award space is scattered across dozens of airline and hotel programs, it moves constantly, and the best deals get taken.
- ▪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.
- ▪Award space is scattered across dozens of airline and hotel programs, it moves constantly, and the best deals get taken.
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| Original publisher | Y Combinator |
| Canonical URL | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/mqqfa38-lead-full-stack-engineer |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:51 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T12:15:47.150Z |
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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.
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