Robinhood
Staff Software Engineer, Brokerage Infra
Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$230k-$270kDetected 7 days ago
SparkIncident ResponseStakeholder ManagementAccount ManagementLeadershipMentoring
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role
- If you're ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of 10+ engineers at various levels, coaching and mentoring emerging leaders, setting a high technical bar, and fostering a culture of ownership and accountability
- Drive modernization initiatives including and resolving core storage bottlenecks
- Own reliability and uptime KPIs - including SLOs for subsecond order latency, high availability, capacity planning, and rapid incident recovery during high-volume trading events
- Collaborate across infrastructure and product teams to enforce reliability standards and align on technical direction
- 10+ years of professional engineering experience, with several years at the staff level and prior Team Lead experience
- Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not.
- If our mission energizes you and you're ready to build the future of finance, we look forward to seeing your application.
- AI Usage Disclosure: Robinhood uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our recruiting process.
Requirements
- Deep expertise with tier zero or mission-critical systems at significant scale - you've contributed to or maintained systems operating at millions to tens of millions of QPS
- Demonstrated experience managing engineering teams of ~10+ engineers, including senior and staff-level ICs
- Experience leading architectural migrations or modernization efforts (e.g., language rewrites, traffic routing simplification, storage improvements)
- Track record of maintaining system correctness and reliability in high-accountability production environments (financial order execution, account management, or similar)
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and align across infrastructure and product organizations
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
Skills
- Join us in building the future of finance.
- An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades.
- The largest transfer of wealth in human history.
- About the team + role
- Sharp problem-solvers.
- Builders who are wired to make an impact.
- Robinhood isn't a place for complacency, it's where ambitious people do the best work of their careers.
- Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.
- Our systems handle millions of transactions per second across high-volume market events, and our reliability is non-negotiable!
Compensation
- $230,000 - $270,000 USD
- $203,000 - $238,000 USD
- $180,000 - $211,000 USD
Benefits
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
- Top Tier 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 & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
- In addition to the base pay range listed below, this role is also eligible for bonus opportunities + equity + benefits.
- Base pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands.
Company info
- Our mission is to democratize finance for all.
- We're a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do.
- We are a team of 10+ engineers, with a culture of deep ownership, engineering rigor, and relentless focus on correctness and scale.
Equal opportunity
- Robinhood provides equal opportunity for all applicants, offers reasonable accommodations upon request, and complies with applicable equal employment and privacy laws.
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