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RobinhoodStaff Software Engineer, Brokerage Infra
Robinhood is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to guide its Brokerage Infrastructure group. The organization builds platforms that handle order processing, account management, and high-volume transactions…
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Robinhood is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to guide its Brokerage Infrastructure group. The organization builds platforms that handle order processing, account management, and high-volume transactions during critical market events. In this position, you will lead a team of more than ten engineers while defining the technical vision for tier-zero systems. This role is designed for senior technologists with a background in mission-critical applications and team leadership. You will drive…
Job Description
Robinhood is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to guide its Brokerage Infrastructure group. The organization builds platforms that handle order processing, account management, and high-volume transactions during critical market events. In this position, you will lead a team of more than ten engineers while defining the technical vision for tier-zero systems.
This role is designed for senior technologists with a background in mission-critical applications and team leadership. You will drive platform modernization, establish reliability standards, and manage relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. The position operates on a hybrid schedule requiring attendance three days per week.
Robinhood offers performance-driven compensation, equity, retirement matching, and top-tier healthcare coverage. Additional provisions include lifestyle wallets, mental health support, fertility benefits, and catered meals at the company offices.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for tier-zero order processing and account management systems.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of over ten engineers at various seniority levels.
- Drive modernization initiatives and resolve core storage bottlenecks.
- Manage reliability and uptime key performance indicators, including subsecond order latency service level objectives and rapid incident recovery.
- Collaborate across infrastructure and product teams to enforce reliability standards and align on technical strategy.
- Identify scalability risks, champion preventative solutions, and coordinate incident response.
- Shape hiring, onboarding, and engineering culture as the platform scales.
Requirements
- Ten or more years of professional engineering experience.
- Several years of experience operating at the staff level.
- Prior team lead experience managing a team of approximately ten or more engineers.
- Deep expertise with tier-zero or mission-critical systems operating at millions to tens of millions of queries per second.
- Demonstrated background leading architectural migrations or modernization efforts such as language rewrites or storage improvements.
- Experience maintaining system correctness and reliability in high-accountability production environments like financial order execution.
Core Skills
Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact.
- Bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
- One hundred percent paid health insurance for employees and ninety percent coverage for dependents.
- Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund for eligible United States employees.
- Continuous artificial intelligence skill-building and access to market AI tools.
- Lifestyle wallet benefits spending account for wellness and learning.
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
- Paid time off including holidays, sick time, parental leave, and time off to recharge.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the employment type for this role?
The position is a full-time role.
Where is the job located and is it remote?
The role is based in the Menlo Park, California and New York, New York offices with a hybrid attendance requirement of three days per week.
What experience is required for this position?
Candidates must have ten or more years of professional engineering experience, including several years at the staff level, prior team lead experience, and expertise with mission-critical systems at significant scale.
What is the salary range for this job?
The base pay range depends on the location zone, with Zone 1 offering $230,000 to $270,000 USD, Zone 2 offering $203,000 to $238,000 USD, and Zone 3 offering $180,000 to $211,000 USD.
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