Senior Staff Software Engineer

About this role

• We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact
• Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards
• At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams
• Own the technical vision and execution for a highly visible, mission-critical area of Robinhood’s trading experience, including the app’s front page
• Design and evolve high-performance, low-latency systems that support real-time trading, market data, and discovery for millions of daily users
• Remain deeply hands-on, writing production code, leading complex implementations, and setting the standard for engineering quality across the platform
• 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 one of the highest-traffic surfaces in the company
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, architecture discussions, and hands-on leadership
• Influence platform direction beyond your immediate team, aligning with adjacent orgs and company-wide initiatives- Expertise in backend development using languages such as Go, Python, or Java, with deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures
• Strong grasp of system design, data modeling, an...