Staff Software Engineer: Backend

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.

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.
• 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 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?

• 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.