Software Engineer, Full-Stack

RealRoots is hiring a full-stack software engineer to build, iterate, and scale their AI social app for women. This role involves developing core app features end-to-end, collaborating with the ops team, building state-of-the-art AI features, running experiments, and working directly with founders. It's an opportunity for an exceptional engineer excited about a mission-driven, early-stage, high-growth startup focused on creating meaningful friendships.

Must Have

• Develop, launch, and maintain core app features end-to-end
• 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
• Run experiments to test and validate new ideas
• Work directly with the founding team to ideate and build the future of social connection
• 2+ years relevant professional coding experience
• Excitement & willingness to own large, ambiguous problems end-to-end
• Proficiency with AI-powered coding tools, such as Cursor or Copilot
• Comfortable learning new languages, libraries, and frameworks when the solution calls for it
• Experience & comfort working at a fast-paced, early-stage startup
• Strong user empathy & mission alignment
• Ready & willing to tackle any problem at the company
• Self-starter who’s resourceful, scrappy, and able to move things forward independently
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills

About RealRoots

RealRoots is a mobile app that guarantees women lifelong friendships. After a quick 10-minute survey, we match each user with compatible friends nearby. From there, our AI assistant plans thoughtful, recurring hangs - so her social calendar stays full of meaningful connection.

About the Role

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!

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 4, 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

Interview Process

• 20min intro call with CPO
• 1hr live coding (a real-world problem) + technical discussion with CTO
• 20min call with CEO
• In-office (paid) work trial: 3 FT days or 5-10 PT days, depending on your schedule