Senior Software Engineer, Service Discovery and Communication

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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About the team:
Robinhood's products are powered by a multitude of powerful microservices working in unison. In order for these microservices to work, they need to be able to locate and communicate with each other. We build and deploy the fundamental systems that enable this real-time, inter-service communication all while being highly-scaleable, robust and reliable!
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and lead from a very technical lens. This engineer will have true ownership, continuing to build the innovation to continue to delight our users.
What you'll do day-to-day:

• Design large scale systems within a team, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability.
• Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the infrastructure and systems.
• Mentor and train junior engineers in the team.
• Contribute to open source projects.

About you:

• Proven understanding of Networking and Microservice Architecture and a familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems with load balancing techniques.
• Have a strong technical grasp and have excellent judgment on task prioritizations.
• You are able to tackle sophisticated engineering problems that deliver results which help the team to achieve its objectives.
• You have a history of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency.
• Passion in mentoring junior engineers and improving the engineering craftsmanship!

Bonus points:

• Intimate familiarity of Python/Django or Go and writing low latency, large scale distributed systems.
• Experience working on Kubernetes, AWS, and service discovery or service mesh type systems.

Technologies we use:

• Python/Django, Go as the main languages and frameworks of choice. Experience with C++ is a bonus as we construct our global edge.
• Unbound and CoreDNS as our DNS
• Envoy for load balancing and global routing
• gRPC for inter-service communication

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.