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
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and lead from a very technical lens. This engineer will have true ownership, continuing to build the innovation to continue to delight our users.
What you’ll do day-to-day:
Design large scale systems within a team, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability. Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the infrastructure and systems. Mentor and train junior engineers in the team. Contribute to open source projects. About you:
Proven understanding of Networking and Microservice Architecture and a familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems with load balancing techniques. Have a strong technical grasp and have excellent judgment on task prioritizations. You are able to tackle sophisticated engineering problems that deliver results which help the team to achieve its objectives. You have a history of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency. Passion in mentoring junior engineers and improving the engineering craftsmanship! Bonus points:
Intimate familiarity of Python/Django or Go and writing low latency, large scale distributed systems. Experience working on Kubernetes, AWS, and service discovery or service mesh type systems. Technologies we use:
Python/Django, Go as the main languages and frameworks of choice. Experience with C++ is a bonus as we construct our global edge. Unbound and CoreDNS as our DNS Envoy for load balancing and global routing gRPC for inter-service communication
This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and participation in Robinhood’s equity plan.
Base pay is determined by market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Please note, some of our roles are open to additional levels which would impact the expected base pay.
We’re looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all. If you’re ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission—we’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Robinhood, we're looking for people invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.
