About the position
Join a leading fintech company that’s democratizing finance for all. Robinhood Markets was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood and its subsidiaries and affiliates are 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. With growth as the top priority, the business is seeking curious, growth-minded thinkers to help shape our vision, structures and systems; playing a key-role as we launch into our ambitious future. If you’re invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world — we’d love to have you apply.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain large-scale systems that power Robinhood’s platform, infrastructure, and core services
- Write and review high-quality code, create capacity and scaling plans, and debug complex, real-time issues in mission-critical systems used by millions of customers
- Lead by example, mentoring teammates, promoting best practices, and fostering a culture focused on operational excellence and system resilience
- Take ownership of system reliability by participating in on-call rotations, proactively addressing potential issues, and driving long-term improvements to reduce downtime
- Collaborate with industry-leading engineers to develop scalable tools and infrastructure that meet Robinhood’s growing demands
- Drive innovation by optimizing infrastructure for reliability and cost-efficiency, supporting Robinhood’s mission to democratize finance for all at a global scale
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed systems
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python/Go/C++
- Expertise in operating systems (Linux/Unix), networking, and troubleshooting sophisticated production issues in high-availability environments
- A track record of mentoring team members, fostering collaboration, and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement
Nice-to-haves
- Experience running large workloads on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on AWS or another cloud provider
- Experience working with Observability systems with a goal of reducing incident metrics such as Mean-Time-To-Detect (MTTD) and Mean-Time-To-Resolve (MTTR)
- Experience working with large Infrastructure components such as compute, storage networking and/or developer infrastructure
Benefits
- Market competitive and pay equity-focused compensation structure
- 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
- Annual lifestyle wallet for personal wellness, learning and development, and more!
- Lifetime maximum benefit for family forming and fertility benefits
- Dedicated mental health support for employees and eligible dependents
- Generous time away including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
- Lively office environment with catered meals, fully stocked kitchens, and geo-specific commuter benefits
- Participation in a Robinhood bonus plan and Robinhood’s equity plan
