Engineering Manager, Advisory Platform
Robinhood is a financial services company on a mission to democratize finance for all. They offer a platform for commission-free investing in stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies, as well as retirement accounts. The company provides educational resources and financial news to empower users to make informed investment decisions.
About Robinhood Markets, Inc.
Founded by Stanford roommates Baiju Bhatt and Vlad Tenev, Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD) aims to provide everyone with access to financial markets, not just the wealthy. The company introduced commission-free trading, revolutionizing the industry. In the U.S., Robinhood offers investing through Robinhood Financial LLC, crypto trading via Robinhood Crypto, LLC, and spending/rewards cards through Robinhood Money, LLC and Robinhood Credit, Inc. They have expanded internationally, offering stock trading in the UK through Robinhood U.K. Ltd. and crypto trading in the EU via Robinhood Europe, UAB. Robinhood also provides educational content through Robinhood Learn and financial news via Sherwood Media, LLC, supporting a new generation of investors with user-friendly products.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead engineers responsible for designing and delivering backend systems that operate at scale. You will guide architectural decisions, support engineers in solving complex technical challenges, and ensure systems meet reliability and performance expectations. You will partner with product managers, legal, compliance, and operations teams to align technical execution with business priorities and customer needs. In addition, you will support career development, team effectiveness, and consistent delivery across key initiatives.
Requirements
- You have 5+ years of software engineering experience, including experience managing engineers or engineering teams.
- You have experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems with a focus on reliability and performance.
- You have delivered complex technical initiatives from planning through execution.
- You communicate effectively with both technical and business partners.
- You support team development through coaching, feedback, and structured growth planning.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and support the growth of a team of software engineers while fostering an inclusive and collaborative engineering culture.
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for brokerage services, balancing platform improvements with delivery of new capabilities.
- Work with product managers, legal, compliance, and operations teams to design reliable financial workflows and customer-facing systems.
- Establish operational metrics, architectural standards, and monitoring practices that improve system reliability, performance, and availability.
- Contribute to organizational planning, resource allocation, and technical direction across the Brokerage Engineering organization.
Benefits
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
- Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
- Best-in-class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
- Lifestyle wallet — a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.