Staff Software Engineer
About The Position
Robinhood is building an elite team to apply frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. The Backend Platform team's mission is to enable fast, safe, and reliable backend development at scale by building and maintaining shared frameworks, libraries, and tooling. This role is for a Staff Software Developer who will set technical direction and lead large, multi-team initiatives to improve backend system development and operation. The role focuses on solving complex system-level challenges, influencing engineering practices, and ensuring long-term scalability and reliability. This position is based in New York City, New York, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week, emphasizing the value of in-person work for progress, innovation, and community.
Requirements
- Extensive experience building and scaling backend systems using Go and Python.
- Deep knowledge of backend frameworks such as Django, gRPC or comparable systems in Go.
- Experience designing internal platforms, developer tooling (Bazel, etc), or shared infrastructure used by multiple teams.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects and influence engineering direction across teams.
- Commitment to improving developer workflows, system quality, and maintainability through thoughtful design.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead large-scale initiatives that improve backend development systems, including frameworks, tooling, and shared libraries.
- Design long-term technical solutions that support scalability, reliability, and maintainability across backend services.
- Guide the evolution of core tooling such as static analysis, formatting systems, and service scaffolding used across the codebase.
- Partner with engineering teams such as infrastructure, security, and product engineering to plan and execute platform improvements.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that improves code quality, system design, and development practices.
Benefits
- Supplemental health insurance
- Ancillary insurance
- Mental health support programs
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account for expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more.
- Company holidays
- Paid time off
- Sick time
- Paid volunteer time off
- Parental leave
- Catered meals
- Events
- Comfortable workspaces
- Monthly commuter stipend
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
