Senior Software Engineer

Join a leading fintech company that's democratizing finance for all.
Robinhood was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.
As we continue to build...
We're seeking curious thinkers looking to co-author the next chapters of our story. Joining now means helping shape our vision, structures and systems; playing a key-role as we launch into our ambitious future.
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As we continue to build...
We're seeking curious thinkers looking to co-author the next chapters of our story. Joining now means helping shape our vision, structures, and systems; playing a key role as we launch into our ambitious future.
About the team:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be leading, building, and owning backend services, infrastructure, and data that power our core financial products. You will gain a unique look into how the US financial systems work on the inside and strengthen your financial-domain knowledge.
We strive for a high standard of engineering quality while solving unique scalability challenges. You will have a high impact at a relatively small company for our user base.
This is an individual contributor role.
What you'll do day-to-day:

• Design large scalable systems within a team; making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability.
• Lead, build, test, and release product-facing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements; these features could be related to market data, trading, accounting, authentication, or security.
• Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the product.
• Collaborate with our frontend team to fine-tune our REST API and with our data team to support millions of customers.
• Contribute to open-source projects.

About you:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• A proven tech lead with experience planning and leading large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team.
• Strong technical grasp and excellent judgment on task prioritizations.
• Able to tackle complex engineering problems that deliver results.
• History of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency.
• Solid understanding of databases and transactions.
• Familiar with writing highly concurrent systems.
• Good intuition for REST API design.

Bonus points:

• Intimate familiarity of Python/Django or Go
• Proven experience building large scale systems

Technologies we use:

• Python/Django, Go as the main languages and frameworks of choice.
• PostgreSQL as our primary data store.
• Redis and Memcached as our caching layer.

CO Residents: In Colorado, the base pay for this position ranges from $146000 to $194000. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and participation in Robinhood's equity plan.
We're looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all. If you're ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission-we'd love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Robinhood, we're looking for people invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.
Robinhood promotes diversity and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are dedicated to building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work (and work environment) will be for everyone. Additionally, Robinhood provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights. To review Robinhood's Privacy Policy please visit Robinhood - US Applicant Privacy Policy .
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Robinhood is a primarily remote company. If hired, you will work as a remote employee unless the job you are applying for has a different working model specified. Please reach-out to your recruiter if you have any questions regarding the job's working model.