3 days ago
Ljubljana, SloveniaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term architectural vision and engineering standards for high-availability, low-latency cloud platforms.
- Lead multi-quarter modernization initiatives, including migration to resilient containerized cloud environments and optimization of deployment and auto-scaling patterns.
- Direct distributed architecture integrations between Bitstamp’s exchange backend and Robinhood’s global infrastructure.
- Design self-healing systems and automation to reduce operational toil, technical debt, and scalability bottlenecks.
- Own ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives from inception through production while balancing speed, resilience, cost, and maintainability.
- Mentor senior engineers, lead architectural design reviews, and establish engineering best practices.
- Act as a senior escalation point for high-severity incidents, lead post-mortems, and implement safeguards for 24/7 platform resilience.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant experience in backend and distributed-systems engineering.
- Proven experience operating as a technical lead or Staff-level engineer in high-scale environments.
- Advanced expertise with containerization, orchestration, and enterprise-scale AWS cloud services, including Docker, Kubernetes, EC2, ECS/EKS, Aurora, and DynamoDB.
- Deep understanding of high-concurrency, low-latency backend architectures, event-driven systems, fault tolerance, and data consistency models.
- Demonstrated ability to independently take ambiguous, organization-wide problems from inception to production.
- Strong communication skills and ability to build technical consensus and influence cross-functional roadmaps across multiple geographies.
- Systems-thinking and operational experience supporting a 24/7 financial exchange.
Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact and bonus programs.
- Supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs.
- Access to AI tools and continuous AI skill-building.
- Flexible employer-paid lifestyle wallet for wellness, childcare, learning, and other expenses.
- Company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, and parental leave.
- Catered meals, events, and comfortable office workspaces.
- Monthly commuter stipend.
- Based in the Ljubljana, Slovenia office with in-person attendance expected at least three days per week.
- Participation in an on-call rotation is required.
Tech Stack
About Robinhood
Robinhood builds a mobile-first brokerage and cash management platform for retail investors to trade stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies, plus IRAs and a cash card. It makes money through interest on cash and margin, payment for order flow, crypto trading fees, and subscriptions like Robinhood Gold. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Robinhood Markets is a public company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker HOOD.