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Rogo · 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer: Backend

Rogo is building Wall Street's first true AI analyst, aiming to empower finance professionals with AI that delivers speed, accuracy, and insight. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing and scaling a category-defining product, working on APIs, infrastructure, and code quality.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business IntelligenceFinancial ServicesFinTechGenerative AI
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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

Qualification

Backend API architectureDistributed systemsStrongly typed languagesSecure coding practicesMap Reduce frameworksCuriosityAutonomyCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

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

Preferred

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

Benefits

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.

Company

Rogo

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Rogo is a secure Generative AI platform purpose-built for elite financial institutions.

H1B Sponsorship

Rogo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79M
Key Investors
Sequoia CapitalThrive CapitalKhosla Ventures
2025-10-28Series Unknown
2025-04-30Series B· $50M
2024-10-01Series A· $18.5M

Leadership Team

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Gabriel Stengel
CEO / Founder
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John Willett
Co-Founder & COO
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