About the company
Robinhood was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.
Job Summary
What you’ll do day-to-day
📍Design scalable systems and components, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability. 📍Lead, build, test, and release product-facing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements. 📍Collaborate with our frontend and data teams to fine tune our REST APIs supporting millions of customers. 📍Work closely with Product, Design, and Platform teams to drive the vision for the future of Robinhood Crypto.
About you
📍5+ years of software engineering experience. 📍2+ years experience writing low latency, large scale distributed systems. 📍Familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems and good intuition for REST API design. 📍A proven tech lead with experience planning and leading large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team. 📍Strong technical grasp with excellent judgment on task prioritizations. 📍Ability to solve complex engineering problems that deliver results aligned with team objectives.
Bonus points
📍Experience in trading or financial services 📍Experience working with blockchains and related systems
Technologies we use
📍Python/Go and Django as the main languages and frameworks of choice 📍PostgreSQL and DynamoDB as our primary data stores 📍Kafka, Memcached, Redis 📍AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
