Staff Software Engineer: Backend

We're building Al thought partners to make people smarter and more creative, accelerating the creation and sharing of knowledge in financial services. We're unabashedly ambitious, and we're dead set on building the biggest Financial AI company in the world. Our team is lean, smart, and enormously ambitious.

WHY JOIN ROGO?

• Exceptional traction: strong PMF with the world's largest investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms.

• World-class team : we take talent density seriously. We like working with incredibly smart, driven people.

• Velocity: we work fast, which means you learn a lot and constantly take on new challenges.

• Frontier technology: we're developing cutting-edge AI systems, pushing the boundaries of published research, redefining what's possible, and inventing the future.

• Cutting Edge Product: Our platform is state-of-the-art and crazily powerful. We're creating tools that make people smarter, reinventing how you discover, create, and share knowledge.

About the role

As a Staff Backend Engineer at Rogo, you'll be at the cutting edge of AI research and application development, playing a crucial role in creating a category-defining product and scaling it to massive enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Architect REST and gRPC APIs that are backed by stable, scalable server side implementations and asynchronous code.

• Design and build large-scale infrastructure to power crawling, ranking, and retrieval systems.

• Ship secure and compliant code: implement security concepts to develop software dealing with sensitive data.

• Write robust code that’s easy to read, maintain and test.

• Raise the bar for code quality, reliability and product velocity. Collaboratively, you'll push yourself and peers to develop technically and interpersonally.

Qualifications

Requirements

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related degree.

• Experience with a strongly typed language (e.g., Rust, C++, or Java).

• You love writing highly performant and readable code that is well-tested.

• 6+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems.

• Track record of shipping high-quality products.

• Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge.

Bonus

• Experience with an interface definition language like protocol buffers and gRPC.

• Experience with Map Reduce or other massively distributed parallel computation frameworks.

• Early engineer at a hyper-growth startup.

• Experience in world-class product organizations (e.g., Notion, Figma).

• Financial services experience.

WHO YOU ARE

• You thrive in fast-paced environments. You are high-intensity and care a lot about what you do, and you're ecstatic to work at a start-up

• You are ambitious. You have fun solving problems that others think are impossible.

• You are curious. You find joy in learning about AI, technology, and finance

• You are an owner. You are autonomous, self-directed, and comfortable working with ambiguity

• You are collaborative, organized, and thoughtful .