Staff Backend Engineer

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If you’d like to apply… Please send a short note with resume/linkedin to… [email protected] (subject line ‘Staff Backend Engineer’)

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Who we are

Rodeo is on a mission to help friends be better friends with their friends.
We’re an experienced team with deep 0-1 social experience (Hinge, Facebook, Duolingo) and we enjoy working together in Soho.
Since we launched our private beta in November 2025, we’ve brought in tens of thousands of engaged users, earned millions of organic views through our content, earned placements in Forbes, WIRED, Rolodex Media, As Seen On, Business Insider, and are building Rodeo every single day with a community of people as passionate as we are about touching grass + being better friends to our friends.
You can find Rodeo in the app store (use code SAMIAM)

Killer IC talent

You have excellent craft—know your tools inside and out
Strong backend-as-a-product sense
Creative first principles thinker
Strong communicator since you are the interface between frontend and backend
Been exposed to multiple languages, frameworks, and distributed systems—you have well-developed assessment and comparison muscles

Ready to operate at 0 to 1