Senior Web Engineer, Options
About The Position
The Senior Web Engineer will serve as the tech lead for options on web at Robinhood, setting technical direction for platform topics such as performance and observability. The Options Web team builds options trading experiences across Robinhood.com and Legend, Robinhood’s web trading platform for active traders. Its work includes trading flows, options onboarding, monitoring tools, options details in the positions widget, and the Option Chain tool. The engineer will design, build, test, and roll out customer-facing features using React and TypeScript; own projects from design through rollout; break larger efforts into manageable pieces and guide other engineers; and diagnose complex performance problems and data issues, including options calculations. The role partners closely with product managers, designers, content designers when needed, and the mobile options team to shape and deliver consistent options features across platforms. The position is based in Robinhood’s Menlo Park, California office, with hybrid in-person attendance expected at least three days per week.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional software development experience.
- Strong web engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience building production web applications with React and TypeScript.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with a record of finding root causes in performance and data problems.
- Experience owning projects end to end, from design through development, testing, and rollout.
- Experience leading projects and setting technical direction, such as improving performance or observability.
- Clear communication about technical tradeoffs with engineers, product managers, and designers.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with options trading or other fintech and trading products; options experience is not required, and the company will teach the domain.
- Prior tech lead experience, including at smaller companies.
Responsibilities
- Act as tech lead for options on web and set technical direction on platform topics such as performance and observability.
- Design, build, test, and roll out React and TypeScript features across trading flows, options onboarding, and monitoring tools.
- Own projects end to end, from options team projects to large efforts involving cross-team collaboration.
- Break larger projects into smaller pieces and guide other engineers as they build them.
- Diagnose complex performance problems and data issues, including options calculations; find root causes and establish monitoring to detect problems early.
- Partner with product managers and designers, and content designers when needed, to shape and ship customer-facing features.
- Work with the mobile options team to keep options features consistent across platforms.
Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
- 100% paid health insurance for employees and 90% coverage for dependents.
- Access for eligible US employees to the Robinhood Employee Fund, which provides exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds.
- Access to AI tools and continuous AI skill-building for every employee.
- Lifestyle wallet, a flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance.
- Fertility benefits and mental health benefits.
- Company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more.
- Catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
- Top-tier benefits and challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
