Staff Software Engineer, Exchange Platform
Robinhood helps users invest in stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies through commission-free trading with no minimum account requirements.
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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 the technical vision, architectural roadmap, and engineering standards for platform modernization. You will architect low-latency cloud infrastructure, lead distributed-systems integrations, modernize foundational services, reduce operational toil, mentor engineers, and lead incident response and post-mortems.
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of backend and distributed-systems engineering experience.
- Demonstrate technical leadership experience at a technical lead or Staff-level engineer level.
- Have expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, EC2, ECS/EKS, Aurora, and DynamoDB.
- Understand high-concurrency, low-latency backend architectures, event-driven systems, fault tolerance, and data consistency models.
- Take ambiguous organization-wide problems from inception to production.
- Build technical consensus and align cross-functional stakeholders.
- Balance architectural evolution with the operational needs of a 24/7 financial exchange.
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term architecture for high-availability, low-latency cloud platforms.
- Lead multi-quarter modernization initiatives for containerized cloud environments.
- Lead distributed architecture integrations between exchange backend and global infrastructure.
- Architect self-healing systems and automation to reduce operational toil.
- Own high-impact technical initiatives and balance resilience, cost, speed, and maintainability.
- Mentor senior engineers and lead architectural design reviews.
- Lead responses to high-severity incidents and establish systemic safeguards.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs.
- Supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs.
- Access to AI tools and continuous AI skill-building.
- Employer-paid lifestyle wallet for wellness, childcare, learning, and more.
- Company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, and parental leave.
- Catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
- Monthly commuter stipend.