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Staff Backend Engineer: Financial Data

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rogo logoRogo · New York City
Full-timeOn-site3mo ago
BigQueryCachingGCPJavaNoSQLObservability
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Responsibilities

  • As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Financial Data team, you'll be at the cutting edge of what makes Rogo's AI possible - the systems that source, integrate, transform, and serve structured and unstructured financial data at scale. This is a critical role at the heart of the product.
  • Own critical data infrastructure: Take complex requirements and turn them into robust, scalable solutions that ingest, transform, and serve financial datasets reliably - end to end, from conception to production.
  • Architect for scale and performance: Design and build highly scalable, cost-effective data processing pipelines that handle millions of documents and datapoints daily with very low latency and maximum throughput.
  • Drive data integration: Build systems that connect heterogeneous financial datasets - market data vendors, proprietary sources, third-party providers - into coherent, reliable, queryable platforms that power Rogo's AI layer.
  • Handle customer data with care: Build secure, compliant integrations that treat enterprise customer data with the highest standards of trust, privacy, and reliability - from ingestion through to serving.
  • Raise the bar: Lead by example - write the kind of code, make the kind of decisions, and bring the kind of energy that naturally elevates everyone around you.
  • Be a cultural anchor: Foster a culture of learning, craft, and ownership not through direction, but through how you show up every day.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record building complex, data-intensive backend systems.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with GCP or equivalent cloud stack, building and scaling production-grade services.
  • Deep expertise in Python for backend and API systems; proficiency in at least one strongly typed language (Rust, C++, or Java), with Java being a strong plus.
  • Mastery in designing large-scale distributed systems - asynchronous patterns, streaming, queuing, caching strategies, and robust observability (logging, metrics, tracing).
  • Strong command of relational databases and SQL - schema design, query optimization, indexing - alongside NoSQL, in-memory (Redis), and columnar stores (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift).
  • Proven experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines - both streaming and batch - integrating heterogeneous financial data sources with high reliability and throughput.
  • 3+ years of experience managing or working closely with globally distributed engineering teams.
  • Exceptional communication skills - able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and to influence engineering direction across teams without direct authority.
  • Track record of shipping high-quality products in unstructured, fast-moving environments with full autonomy from conception to deployment.
  • Demonstrated passion for corporate finance, capital markets, and financial data - you understand the standards, workflows, and zero-tolerance for data quality issues that investment professionals demand.
  • 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?
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Benefits

Equity / stock options

Additional Information

Why Rogo At Rogo, we are building Wall Street's first true AI banker. Our mission is to empower finance professionals at the world's top investment banks, private equity funds, and investment firms with AI that delivers unparalleled speed, accuracy, and insight. We are not just improving financial workflows; we are redefining them from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to join a generational company at a key inflection point. 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 the mission. We operate with intensity, 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.


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