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Rogo

Software Engineer: Backend

Posted One Month Ago
In-Office
New York City, NY, USA
Mid level
In-Office
New York City, NY, USA
Mid level
Build and scale backend systems for an enterprise AI platform. Responsibilities include architecting REST and gRPC APIs, developing distributed infrastructure for crawling, ranking, and retrieval, writing secure and tested code, and improving reliability and engineering velocity. The role requires a strong computer science foundation, proficiency in a strongly typed language, and at least four years of experience building distributed systems.
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Why Rogo

Our mission is to transform global finance by empowering professionals at the world's top investment banks, private equity funds, and investment firms with AI that delivers unparalleled speed, accuracy, and insight. We're not just improving financial workflows; we're redefining them.

This is a unique opportunity to join a generational company driving transformation in one of the most important industries in the world. With a rapidly growing, global client base, proven product-market fit, and backing from world-class investors, we are scaling quickly and defining a new category of enterprise AI.

Our team is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to Rogo’s mission. We take ownership of complex problems and stay relentlessly focused on our users. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, demand excellence, and want to help build the future of finance, we invite you to join us.

What You Will Own

As a 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.

  • 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

What You Will Need
  • 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

  • 4+ 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)

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 startup.

  • 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, thoughtful, and kind.

Why Join Rogo?
  • Up and to the right: Rogo has strong product adoption with the world's leading financial institutions, and we are still early. The upside is enormous.

  • Extraordinary team: we take talent density seriously. You'll do the best work of your career alongside some of the sharpest people in AI and finance.

  • A one-of-one problem: bringing AI to the core of how Wall Street works is one of the most ambitious, technically demanding, and consequential problems today. There is nowhere else you can work on it at this scale.

  • Real ownership: You'll own real surface area and watch the world's most sophisticated users rely on your work.

  • Always at the frontier: we work at the edge of what the best models can do and turn it into products people trust. If you're obsessed with AI, this is where it's happening.

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