Staff Software Engineer, TradingTools

About This Role

This Staff Software Engineer will lead the technical vision and execution for Robinhood's core trading tools, focusing on high-performance, low-latency systems that power the app's most critical features. The role involves integrating AI capabilities to deliver precise, personalized, and trusted trading experiences at massive scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and execution for Robinhood’s trading experience, including the app’s front page
• Design, build, and operate core services for Portfolio, Watchlists, and Stock Detail pages, serving real-time market data and insights
• Design and evolve high-performance, low-latency systems for real-time trading, market data, and discovery for millions of users
• Write production code, lead complex implementations, and set engineering quality standards
• Lead the integration of AI-driven capabilities into core trading, portfolio, and discovery workflows
• Balance trading depth with usability, ensuring sophisticated functionality remains fast, intuitive, and accessible
• Drive technical excellence across reliability, correctness, observability, and security in a highly regulated environment
• Partner closely with Product and Design to shape the roadmap for high-traffic surfaces
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, architecture discussions, and hands-on leadership
• Influence platform direction beyond the immediate team, aligning with adjacent organizations and company-wide initiatives

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, distributed systems in production environments
• Expertise in backend development using languages such as Go, Python, or Java
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures
• 3+ years leading large-scale technical initiatives
• Strong grasp of system design, data modeling, and software engineering fundamentals
• Proven ability to simplify complex problems, make sound tradeoffs, and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders
• Strong ownership mindset with a track record of delivering high-impact, end-to-end product outcomes and raising team-wide technical standards

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, distributed systems in production environments; 3+ years leading large-scale technical initiatives with ownership spanning multiple teams or complex systems

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits