About RealRoots
RealRoots is a mission-driven startup that guarantees women meaningful new friendships in her city. We are building RealRoots because we have desperately needed this product so many times in our lives. In a world with IRL human connection is getting scarcer than ever, RealRoots helps turn the tide by helping women create meaningful, long-lasting friendships. We are committed to building a work culture that is as kind, empathetic, and connective as the product we deliver.
RealRoots is a seed-funded startup backed by world-class investors such as Y Combinator, Goodwater, Authentic Ventures, and Lombardstreet Ventures. We're just getting started and we need your help!
About The Role
RealRoots is hiring a full-stack software engineer to help us build, iterate, and scale our product. This is a great role for an exceptional software engineer who is a jack-of-all-trades and is excited about working at a mission-driven, early-stage, high-growth startup. You'll be joining a team of 7, so you'll be working directly with both founders on a daily level, and have prime opportunities for growth as the company grows.
This is a SF-based, FT in-person role.
What You’ll Do
- Develop, launch, and maintain core app features end-to-end, from development through release
- Collaborate closely with our ops team to identify opportunities & automate away manual work
- Build state of the art AI features to help our users to connect more deeply IRL (e.g., voice AI, scheduling AI, etc.)
- Run experiments to test and validate new ideas
- Work directly with the founding team to ideate and build the future of social connection!
Qualifications
- 2+ years relevant professional coding experience
- Excitement & willingness to own large, ambiguous problems end-to-end
- Proficiency in React or React Native, Next.js, Typescript, Postgres
- Proficiency with AI-powered coding tools, such as Cursor or Copilot, as an integrated part of your daily workflow
- Comfortable learning new languages, libraries, and frameworks when the solution calls for it
- Experience & comfort working at a fast-paced, early-stage startup (former founders are especially welcome!)
- Strong user empathy & mission alignment
- Ready & willing to tackle any problem at the company, from small features or bugs to large, novel new features
- Self-starter who’s resourceful, scrappy, and able to move things forward independently
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
When You Apply, Please Include
- Your resume
- A description about why you're excited about this specific opportunity and what draws you to RealRoots
- Links to apps you've shipped, GitHub repos, or anything that showcases your work
