Staff Software Engineer (Backend Platform)

About this role

• We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems
• 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
• The Backend Platform team’s mission is to enable fast, safe, and reliable backend development at scale
• The team builds and maintains shared frameworks, libraries, and tooling that support hundreds of engineers working across backend services
• By improving development workflows, strengthening security practices, and standardizing how services are built and maintained, this team plays a critical role in how quickly and safely products reach customers
• You will help shape the foundation that backend engineers rely on every day!
• As a Staff Software Developer, you will set technical direction and lead large, multi-team initiatives that improve how backend systems are developed and operated
• You will design and guide adoption of platform capabilities such as service frameworks, static analysis systems, and developer tooling
• This role focuses on solving complex system-level challenges, influencing engineering practices across teams, and ensuring long-term scalability and reliability of backend development
• You will also support engineers through technical guidance and contribute to planning and execution of major platform investments!
• You define and lead large-scale initiatives that improve backend development systems, including frameworks, tooling, and shared libraries
• You design long-term technical solutions that support scalability, reliability, and maintainability across backend services
• You guide the evolution of core tooling such as static analysis, formatting systems, and service scaffolding used across the codebase
• You partner with engineering teams such as infrastructure, security, and product engineer...