Senior Software Engineer
Posted on: 20 May 2021
Menlo Park, CA
Job Description
About the role
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 high standard of engineering quality while solving unique scalability challenges. You will have high impact at a relatively small company for our user base.
You will support one of three engineering organizations:
Product
Responsible for the end-to-end user experience of Robinhood. Our teams are product-aligned, and have engineers from across the stack working together to ship high quality products. Strong partnerships with product and design are at the core.
Data
Advancing Robinhood’s mission by building products and infrastructure to collect, clean, and organize datasets. We make informed decisions about user-facing products as well as internal systems, often by using mathematics and statistics to extract insights about uncertain processes. We empower Robinhood to measure the impact of those decisions.
Infrastructure
Providing the infrastructure for our products as well as ensuring developer velocity and system stability. Our work spans multiple areas including architecture, the software development lifecycle, cloud infrastructure, networking, online data processing, reliability and more.
Your day-to-day will involve
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
6+ 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 relational 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.
Celery as our task queue using RabbitMQ.
Robinhood
Menlo Park, CA
Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, known for offering commission-free trades of stocks and exchange-traded funds via a mobile app introduced in March 2015. Robinhood is a FINRA-regulated broker-dealer, registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.The company's revenue comes from three main sources: interest earned on customers' cash balances, selling order information to high-frequency traders (a practice for which the SEC opened an investigation into the company in September 2020) and margin lending. As of 2020, Robinhood had 13 million users.
Robinhood is on a mission to democratize finance for all. We believe it should work for everyone and not just a few. We offer commission-free trading in one, user-friendly platform. Trading in stocks, ETFs and options is offered through Robinhood Financial LLC, member SIPC. Cryptocurrency trading is offered through Robinhood Crypto, LLC. Keep in mind other fees may still apply to your brokerage account. Please see Robinhood Financial’s Fee Schedule at rbnhd.co/fees to learn more. All investments involve risk, including the possible loss of principal. Past performance of a security, or financial product does not guarantee future results or returns. Robinhood Crypto is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the New York State Department of Financial Services and is not a member of FINRA or SIPC. Cryptocurrencies are not stocks and your cryptocurrency investments are not products protected by either FDIC or SIPC. Robinhood Financial LLC and Robinhood Crypto, LLC are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Robinhood Markets, Inc.
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IndustryBanking/Financial Services
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No. of Employees1,281+
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