Staff iOS Engineer, Trading Tools
About The Position
The Staff iOS Engineer on Robinhood’s Trading Tools team serves as the technical lead for mobile, setting technical direction across iOS and Android while remaining hands-on in iOS. The team builds and evolves the core trading platform for active investors, including stock detail, advanced charts, the trading ladder, portfolio, and watchlists. The role designs and builds high-performance trading and research interfaces that use real-time market data, rich charting, and complex portfolio views, with a focus on speed, reliability, and usability. It also drives scalable mobile architecture, cross-platform consistency, AI integrations, engineering standards, and mentoring. The position is based in the New York, NY office, with in-person attendance expected at least three days per week.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of professional iOS application development experience.
- Extensive experience building and maintaining large-scale apps with Swift and modern iOS frameworks, including UIKit and SwiftUI.
- Proven experience owning the technical direction of a product area or platform.
- Experience designing mobile systems with clear architecture patterns, scalable component design, and maintainable testing strategies for data-intensive or real-time use cases.
- Track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams or platforms while balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform improvements.
- Strong working knowledge of Android development principles to set technical direction and collaborate effectively with Android engineers.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with product, design, backend, and infrastructure partners to deliver customer-focused technical solutions.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex trading concepts into intuitive mobile experiences.
- History of mentoring engineers and fostering engineering excellence.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with financial platforms, trading systems, or real-time market data products.
- Experience with server-driven UI, embedded web or React Native surfaces, live audio/video streaming, or building LLM-powered product features.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical vision for mobile across iOS and Android and own execution quality while remaining hands-on in iOS.
- Own the architecture of a scalable iOS application supporting stock detail, advanced charts, the trading ladder, watchlists, and portfolio.
- Build modular, extensible mobile architecture with self-contained components that enable cross-functional teams to build, test, and ship independently.
- Align iOS and Android on architecture, data contracts, feature parity, and release sequencing.
- Improve application performance, real-time data handling, observability, and release stability across core trading workflows, including rendering, launch time, and page-load time.
- Evolve charting and research experiences for active traders.
- Lead integration of AI-driven capabilities into mobile trading, research, and portfolio workflows.
- Lead technical planning and guide system design reviews, implementation discussions, and incident resolution for high-stakes trading features.
- Partner with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and data teams to run experiments and guide product release decisions.
- Mentor iOS and Android engineers through code reviews, technical feedback, and structured development support; help senior engineers grow toward staff-level scope and define engineering standards and documentation.
- Influence mobile platform direction beyond the team by collaborating with adjacent organizations and company-wide initiatives.
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 invest in a private employee fund providing exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds.
- Access to AI tools and continuous AI skill-building.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
