Amadeus Search
Amadeus Search is hiring: Software Engineer - Backend in San Francisco
Amadeus Search, San Francisco, CA, US, 94199
Role: Software Engineer -- Backend
Employment Type: Full-time, On-site
Location: San Francisco, CA
Compensation: $180k - $250k base + 0.5-1% equity
Visa: Not availableCompany Overview
Roam is a $4.5M-funded AI gaming startup founded in 2024, building the world's first complete game generator that allows users to make multiplayer games in minutes. The platform leverages LLM terrain generation, diffusion-based texturing, vector embeddings, and neural shaders - delivered via a TikTok-like editor UI. Backed by Long Journey Ventures, Sequoia Scouts, and AI/gaming industry leaders.
Team size: ~7 people | Industry: Gaming, AI, Software | HQ: San Francisco
Role Summary
Roam seeks a backend software engineer skilled in infrastructure + DevOps, who can design scalable systems supporting hundreds of thousands of users. This role involves architecting pipelines for LLM-powered game generation, integrating across Unity, iOS, and cloud, and ensuring system reliability in a hypergrowth environment.
Key Responsibilities
Employment Type: Full-time, On-site
Location: San Francisco, CA
Compensation: $180k - $250k base + 0.5-1% equity
Visa: Not availableCompany Overview
Roam is a $4.5M-funded AI gaming startup founded in 2024, building the world's first complete game generator that allows users to make multiplayer games in minutes. The platform leverages LLM terrain generation, diffusion-based texturing, vector embeddings, and neural shaders - delivered via a TikTok-like editor UI. Backed by Long Journey Ventures, Sequoia Scouts, and AI/gaming industry leaders.
Team size: ~7 people | Industry: Gaming, AI, Software | HQ: San Francisco
Role Summary
Roam seeks a backend software engineer skilled in infrastructure + DevOps, who can design scalable systems supporting hundreds of thousands of users. This role involves architecting pipelines for LLM-powered game generation, integrating across Unity, iOS, and cloud, and ensuring system reliability in a hypergrowth environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect & automate developer platforms for pipelines (LLM game generation + asset integration)
- Build integrations across Unity, iOS (SwiftUI/UIKit), AWS, Supabase, Pinecone
- Implement automated testing & feedback systems (self-play + user behavior-driven)
- Own backend platform features end-to-end (design → deploy → scale)
- Improve existing architecture, enforce service contracts, and reduce deployment friction
- Learn and adopt new languages/frameworks as the product evolves
- 5-8+ years backend engineering experience
- Strong skills in SQL, NoSQL, Python, TypeScript
- Experience with cloud infra (AWS), DBs, scalable systems
- Bonus: applied AI, game dev, or prior hypergrowth startup experience
- Hands-on, ownership-driven, thrives in fast-moving environments
- Must be on-site in San Francisco
- On-site startup with high ownership
- Optional housing at the Roam House
- Paid fitness membership
- Tight-knit team (~7 people), hypergrowth mode