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- 6+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems

Bachelors in Computer Science or related degree

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

Track record of shipping high-quality products

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

Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge

You are collaborative, organized, and thoughtful

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

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 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

Experience with an interface definition language like protocol buffers and gRPC

Financial services experience

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

Early engineer at a hyper-growth startup

Experience with Map Reduce or other massively distributed parallel computation frameworks