Director of Engineering, Brokerage Platform

Robinhood•Menlo Park, CA

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Robinhood is seeking a Director of Engineering for its Brokerage Platform organization, a critical part of the company's infrastructure responsible for trading, clearing, and settlement. This role involves leading a large, distributed engineering team, owning the technical strategy, and ensuring reliable delivery of core financial systems. The Brokerage Platform spans four interconnected teams: Market Data & Symbology, Trading Platform, Clearing, and Brokerage Infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep engineering knowledge, a platform-first mindset, and the ability to build and retain a world-class team in a high-stakes environment. The position is based in Menlo Park, CA, with a requirement for 5-day in-office attendance.

Requirements

15+ years of software engineering experience, with 6+ years in engineering leadership roles — including demonstrated experience as a Director or Senior Director managing large, multi-team engineering organizations
Deep platform engineering background — you've owned and driven the technical direction of foundational backend platforms at scale, not just product features built on top of them (big plus, though not directly required)
Experience at the intersection of financial services, trading, brokerage, or adjacent high-criticality domains is a strong plus — you don't need to know all four of our sub-domains, but depth in one or two (market data, clearing, order execution, or brokerage infrastructure) is a meaningful signal
A track record of driving platform modernization bets that delivered real business outcomes — you've made the case for a large technical investment, executed it, and pointed to the result
Comfort operating in a high-severity, always-on engineering environment — you've led teams through major incidents and built the systems and culture to minimize their recurrence
Strong background with distributed systems, backend services at scale, Go or Python, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
Background from high-performance engineering organizations in fintech, trading, crypto, or large-scale consumer platforms — companies similar to Robinhood, Coinbase, SoFi, Google, or similar environments where the platform was the business is a strong plus!

Responsibilities

Own the full engineering strategy and delivery for Brokerage Platform — spanning Market Data & Symbology, Trading Platform, Clearing, and Brokerage Infrastructure — setting the technical direction and ensuring the org executes with reliability and conviction
Lead and develop a large, distributed engineering organization of senior and staff-level engineers and engineering managers — building the talent, culture, and bench strength the org needs to sustain high performance over time
Drive platform investments that have direct business impact — identifying the modernization, reliability, and scalability bets worth making, building the conviction behind them, and seeing them through to measurable outcomes
Partner tightly with your TPM counterpart to manage a high volume of incoming asks from trading, crypto, active trader, and event contracts product teams — prioritizing ruthlessly and protecting engineering capacity for the work that matters most
Own the reliability and operational health of systems that run continuously around market-critical functions — ensuring the org is prepared for high-severity incidents and has the processes and tooling to resolve them fast
Engage deeply with cross-functional leadership across Robinhood — representing Brokerage Platform's roadmap, dependencies, and capabilities to product, ops, and executive stakeholders
Champion platform modernization and technical debt reduction — driving initiatives like stack rewrites, sharding, multi-region scaling, and infrastructure abstractions that unlock velocity across the entire engineering org

Benefits

Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact
bonus programs
equity ownership
401(k) matching
100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund
Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building
Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more
Employer-paid life & disability insurance
fertility benefits
mental health benefits
company holidays
paid time off
sick time
parental leave
Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces