Robinhood

Staff Software Engineer

Robinhood
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Base Salary

$230k - $270k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead large-scale initiatives involving backend frameworks, tooling, and shared libraries.
  • Design scalable, reliable, and maintainable technical solutions for backend services.
  • Guide the evolution of static analysis, formatting systems, service scaffolding, and other shared developer tooling.
  • Partner with infrastructure, security, and product engineering teams on platform improvements.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on code quality, system design, and development practices.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience building and scaling backend systems using Go and Python.
  • Deep knowledge of backend frameworks such as Django and gRPC or comparable systems in Go.
  • Experience designing internal platforms, developer tooling such as Bazel, or shared infrastructure used by multiple teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects and influence engineering direction across teams.
  • Commitment to improving developer workflows, system quality, and maintainability through thoughtful design.

Benefits

  • Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs and equity ownership.
  • Supplemental health, ancillary insurance, mental health support, and a flexible lifestyle wallet for wellness, childcare, learning, and other expenses.
  • Company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and other time-off benefits.
  • Catered meals, office events, and comfortable workspaces.
  • Monthly commuter stipend.
  • Hybrid New York City work arrangement with in-person attendance expected at least three days per week.

Tech Stack

BazelDjangoGogRPCPython

Categories

Robinhood

About Robinhood

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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