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Salary: USD 230,000 - 270,000 / annual
Robinhood is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Backend Platform team in New York. The Backend Platform team's mission is to enable fast, safe, and reliable backend development at scale by building and maintaining shared frameworks, libraries, and tooling that support hundreds of engineers across backend services.
In this role, you will set technical direction and lead large, multi-team initiatives that improve how backend systems are developed and operated. You will design and guide adoption of platform capabilities such as service frameworks, static analysis systems, and developer tooling. This is a high-impact position focused on solving complex system-level challenges, influencing engineering practices across teams, and ensuring long-term scalability and reliability of backend development.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define and lead large-scale initiatives that improve backend development systems, including frameworks, tooling, and shared libraries
- Design long-term technical solutions that support scalability, reliability, and maintainability across backend services
- Guide the evolution of core tooling such as static analysis, formatting systems, and service scaffolding used across the codebase
- Partner with engineering teams such as infrastructure, security, and product engineering to plan and execute platform improvements
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that improves code quality, system design, and development practices
Robinhood's mission is to democratize finance for all. The company is building an elite team applying frontier technologies to the world's biggest financial problems. Expectations are high, and the role offers the opportunity to work on impactful infrastructure that directly enables product velocity and reliability across the organization.
The role is based in the New York City office with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. Robinhood emphasizes the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Extensive experience building and scaling backend systems using Go and Python
- Deep knowledge of backend frameworks such as Django, gRPC, or comparable systems in Go
- Experience designing internal platforms, developer tooling (e.g., Bazel), or shared infrastructure used by multiple teams
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects and influence engineering direction across teams
- Commitment to improving developer workflows, system quality, and maintainability through thoughtful design
