Software Engineer: Backend
Rogo is hiring a Software Engineer: Backend in New York, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Rogo.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Rust, C and Java.
- Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
- Level lists 101 other open roles at Rogo.
AI in this role
Build backend infrastructure and APIs to power AI-driven enterprise finance workflows and retrieval systems.
Why Rogo
Our mission is to transform global finance by empowering professionals at the world's top investment banks, private equity funds, and investment firms with AI that delivers unparalleled speed, accuracy, and insight. We're not just improving financial workflows; we're redefining them.
This is a unique opportunity to join a generational company driving transformation in one of the most important industries in the world. With a rapidly growing, global 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 Rogo’s mission. We 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.
What You Will Own
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.
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
4+ 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)
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?
Up and to the right: Rogo has strong product adoption with the world's leading financial institutions, and we are still early. The upside is enormous.
Extraordinary team: we take talent density seriously. You'll do the best work of your career alongside some of the sharpest people in AI and finance.
A one-of-one problem: bringing AI to the core of how Wall Street works is one of the most ambitious, technically demanding, and consequential problems today. There is nowhere else you can work on it at this scale.
Real ownership: You'll own real surface area and watch the world's most sophisticated users rely on your work.
Always at the frontier: we work at the edge of what the best models can do and turn it into products people trust. If you're obsessed with AI, this is where it's happening.
How we rate this
Software Engineer: Backend at Rogo rates 60 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- $167k
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- Tell me about a project where backend was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where api design was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Rust in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI Research, Backend, Distributed Systems, API Design, and Rust. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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