Software Engineer (Backend)

About Rogo

Rogo is a generative AI platform for financial firms (investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity investors).

• We're reinventing how people work, starting with financial services.

• Our team is lean, smart, and enormously ambitious.

• We're growing very fast, and we work in person at our beautiful office in NYC.

• Our mission is to make people smarter by giving everyone an AI analyst.

• We're dead set on building the biggest Financial AI company in the world.

Why join?

• Exceptional early 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.

• Crazy velocity: we work fast, which means you learn a lot and constantly take on new challenges.

• Cutting-edge technology: we're working on the most advanced AI systems, working past the edge of published research, redefining what's possible, and inventing the future.

• N-of-1 Product: Our platform is state-of-the-art and crazily powerful. We're creating tools that make people smarter, reinventing how you discover, create, and share knowledge.

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the development of our applications, APIs, and distributed systems

• Architect & document our tech platform and advise key product & infrastructure decisions

• Implement our CI/CD workflows, using Docker & Github

• Build analytics & monitoring to help understand our user experience & application health

• Contribute in a ton of other ways to a scrappy founding team building the future of flexible light industrial staffing!

Qualifications

Requirements

• You write amazing code, fast.

• 5+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems.

• A deep understanding of how infrastructure-layer (Kubernetes, Database, OS, Cloud Storage etc) software systems work.

• Strong attention to detail and spidey sense for where and when things could go wrong.

• Track record of shipping high-quality products.

• Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge.

Bonus

• Experience with a strongly typed language (e.g., Rust)

• Early engineer at a hyper-growth startup.

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

• Financial services experience.

You'll fit in at Rogo if...

• You have fun solving problems that others think are impossible

• You are high-intensity and care a lot about what you do

• You are ecstatic to work at a start-up

• You're innately curious and find joy in learning about AI and finance

• You are autonomous, self-directed, and comfortable working with ambiguity

• You have eclectic interests