Why Rogo
At Rogo, we are building Wall Street's first true AI analyst. Our mission is to empower finance professionals at the world's top investment banks, private equity funds, and investment firms with AI that delivers unparalleled speed, accuracy, and insight. We are not just improving financial workflows; we are redefining them from the ground up.
This is a unique opportunity to join a generational company at a key inflection point. With a rapidly growing 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 the mission. We operate with intensity, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 more.
Frontier technology: we're developing cutting-edge AI systems, pushing the boundaries of reinforcement learning and 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 finance works.