Robinhood - Staff Software Engineer
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Requirements
• You’ve built or operated your own automated trading bot or trading system. • Hands-on experience with the FIX protocol and order management systems. • Knowledge of WebSockets, streaming market data, or real-time API performance tuning. • Passion for financial markets and an interest in building tools for professional traders.
Responsibilities
• Design and build performant, reliable, and scalable services for our API trading ecosystem. • Optimize low-latency data flows and trading paths, ensuring correctness under pressure. • Own and evolve core components of our REST, FIX, and WebSocket APIs. • Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and frontend teams to deliver seamless API solutions. • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, supporting mission-critical systems used by our most active clients. • Continuously measure, monitor, and improve the trading API experience. • What you bring• 10+ years of backend engineering experience.• Proven experience designing high-performance systems with low-latency and high-throughput requirements.Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS services.• Solid database experience: SQL (MySQL) and/or NoSQL (DynamoDB).• Experience working on or with production-grade trading APIs or high-volume systems.• Structured thinker with strong communication skills and a customer-first mindset.Nice to have
Benefits
• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career • Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact and bonus programs • Top tier benefits to fuel your work, including supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs • Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more. • Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and more! • Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces. • Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs • Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards, which vary by region and entity. • If our mission energizes you and you’re ready to build the future of finance, we look forward to seeing your application. • Robinhood provides equal opportunity for all applicants, offers reasonable accommodations upon request, and complies with applicable equal employment and privacy laws. Inclusion is built into how we hire and work—welcoming different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences so everyone can do their best. Please review the Privacy Policy for your country of application.
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