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Menlo Park, California, United States
Hybrid
Available
Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.
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. We're looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to help shape the future of our core platforms, products, and customer experiences. FinTech is one of the most complex and rapidly evolving spaces in technology, and the challenges we're tackling require deep innovation, critical thinking, and scale that don't always have strong precedents.
You'll take on a highly influential role shaping vision and execution across key strategic initiatives. You'll partner with cross-functional leaders, contribute to high-impact decisions, guide complex projects from concept to completion, and mentor others on the team. This is a role for someone who leverages modern tools and cutting-edge methodologies as a core part of how they solve problems, and raises the bar for everyone around them.
This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA, with in-person attendance expected at least three days per week.
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.
Design, develop, and operate scalable, highly available infrastructure systems that support core product functionality and internal services. Lead the design, development, and evolution of internal platforms, shared services, and tooling that enable reliable, efficient software development, testing, and deployment at scale. Own infrastructure components end to end, including requirements definition, architectural design, implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. Drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering teams to support complex, business-critical workloads, platform capabilities, and large-scale system integrations. Identify systemic reliability, performance, scalability, and operational challenges and implement durable solutions through automation, observability, and engineering best practices. Provide technical leadership during on-call rotations, major incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation efforts to ensure production system stability and availability. Define and guide monitoring, capacity planning, and scaling strategies for production systems and infrastructure. Ensure infrastructure systems meet and advance security, compliance, and operational standards in production environments. Mentor and guide engineers, influence technical direction, and review designs to improve overall infrastructure quality and maintainability. Author and maintain high-quality technical documentation, design proposals, and operational guidance. Telecommuting permitted.
In addition to the base pay range listed below, this role is also eligible for bonus opportunities + equity + benefits.
Base pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected base pay range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed and is aligned to the corresponding compensation zone.
Base Pay Range:
$213,512 - $230,000 per year
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