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Robinhood

Staff Software Engineer

Robinhood
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2 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Design and build performant, reliable, and scalable services for the API trading ecosystem.
  • Optimize low-latency data flows and trading paths, ensuring correctness under pressure.
  • Own and evolve core components of REST, FIX, and WebSocket APIs.
  • Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and frontend teams to deliver seamless API solutions.
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, supporting mission-critical systems.
  • Continuously measure, monitor, and improve the trading API experience.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of backend engineering experience.
  • Proven experience designing high-performance systems with low-latency and high-throughput requirements.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS services.
  • Solid database experience with SQL (MySQL) and/or NoSQL (DynamoDB).
  • Experience working on or with production-grade trading APIs or high-volume systems.
  • Structured thinker with strong communication skills and a customer-first mindset.

Benefits

  • Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
  • Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact and bonus programs.
  • Top tier benefits including supplemental health insurance and mental health support programs.
  • Lifestyle wallet for flexible employer-paid benefits spending.
  • Time off to recharge including company holidays and paid volunteer time off.
  • Exceptional office experience with catered meals and comfortable workspaces.
  • Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAWSMySQLSQL