Rogo

Staff Backend Engineer: Financial Data

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5 months ago

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end data infrastructure that ingests, transforms, and serves financial datasets reliably from conception through production.
  • Architect scalable and cost-effective data processing pipelines handling millions of documents and datapoints daily with low latency and high throughput.
  • Build integrations connecting market data vendors, proprietary sources, and third-party providers into coherent, queryable platforms.
  • Partner with the Core AI team to structure, clean, and serve financial data for models and retrieval systems.
  • Build secure and compliant customer-data integrations with strong privacy, trust, and reliability standards.
  • Lead by example through high-quality code, technical decisions, and engineering practices that elevate the team.
  • Foster a culture of learning, craft, and ownership through daily collaboration and example.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building complex, data-intensive backend systems.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with GCP or an equivalent cloud stack building and scaling production-grade services.
  • Deep Python expertise for backend and API systems, plus proficiency in Rust, C++, or Java; Java is a strong plus.
  • Mastery of large-scale distributed systems, including asynchronous patterns, streaming, queuing, caching, logging, metrics, and tracing.
  • Strong command of relational databases and SQL, including schema design, query optimization, and indexing, alongside NoSQL, Redis, BigQuery, Snowflake, and Redshift.
  • Experience building and operating reliable, high-throughput streaming and batch data pipelines integrating heterogeneous financial data sources.
  • 3+ years of experience managing or working closely with globally distributed engineering teams.
  • Exceptional communication skills and the ability to influence engineering direction across teams without direct authority.
  • Track record of shipping high-quality products autonomously in unstructured, fast-moving environments.
  • Demonstrated passion for corporate finance, capital markets, and financial data, with a strong commitment to data quality.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftC++Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPythonRedisRustSnowflakeSQL

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Rogo

About Rogo

51-200 employees

Rogo is the purpose-built AI platform for finance.