Staff Software Engineer, Brokerage Infra
Robinhood helps users invest in stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies through commission-free trading with no minimum account requirements.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Robinhood
Robinhood helps retail investors access financial markets through commission-free trading of stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies. With it, users can invest with no account minimums, earn rewards through retirement accounts with matching contributions, and access advanced trading tools. Robinhood democratizes investing by making financial markets accessible to everyone, not just wealthy investors.
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About the Role
You will define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for mission-critical order-processing and account-management systems. You will lead and develop engineers, drive modernization, own reliability and uptime metrics, coordinate incident response, manage cross-functional stakeholders, and shape hiring, onboarding, and engineering practices.
Requirements
- Have 10+ years of professional engineering experience, including staff-level and team-lead experience
- Have expertise in tier-zero or mission-critical systems operating at significant scale
- Have experience managing engineering teams of approximately 10+ engineers
- Have experience leading architectural migrations or modernization efforts
- Have experience maintaining correctness and reliability in high-accountability production environments
- Have stakeholder-management skills across infrastructure and product organizations
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the platform technical vision and roadmap
- Lead and develop a team of engineers
- Drive modernization initiatives and resolve storage bottlenecks
- Own reliability and uptime KPIs, including latency SLOs, availability, capacity planning, and incident recovery
- Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams on reliability standards and technical direction
- Identify scalability and reliability risks and coordinate incident response
- Shape hiring, onboarding, and engineering culture
Benefits
- Equity ownership
- 401(k) matching
- Health insurance for employees
- Health insurance coverage for dependents
- Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund for eligible US employees
- Lifestyle wallet
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Employer-paid disability insurance
- Fertility benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Company holidays
- Paid time off
- Sick time
- Parental leave
- Catered meals