As part of the Julian Lage Group, he received a 2010 Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, for Sounding Point.

There he was noticed by Ken Schaphorst, chair of jazz studies at Boston's New England Conservatory, and was invited to audition for the school.

Upon completion of his degree in 2005, he stayed in Boston two more years, before he moved to Brooklyn, New York and took gigs in the city's jazz scene.

In New York, Roeder got together with artists such as guitarist Julian Lage and pianist Shai Maestro, and began long-standing recording and performing relationships with both.

[6] The following year, he appeared on trombonist Michael Dessen's Lineal album,[7] and then again he played with Tepfer on Oxygen, released in 2009.

"[4] On the United States’ Presidential election day on 3 November 2020, Roeder performed in the live streaming Deep Tones for Peace 2020, a public Facebook group formed by bassists Mark Dresser and William Parker the previous August with the mission for all bass players "to musically send healing vibrations to be felt worldwide."