Robinhood - Staff Software Engineer

London, UK+ Equity2w ago

In Office Staff EMEA Cloud Computing Architecture Software Engineer Staff Engineer Docker Kubernetes AWS

Requirements

• Extensive Technical Leadership: 8+ years of relevant experience in backend and distributed systems engineering, with a proven track record of operating as a technical lead or Staff-level engineer in high-scale environments. • Extensive Technical Leadership • Deep Cloud & Container Mastery: Advanced architectural expertise with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and enterprise-scale AWS cloud services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Aurora, DynamoDB). • Deep Cloud & Container Mastery • Distributed Systems & Low-Latency Acumen: Deep understanding of high-concurrency, low-latency backend architectures, event-driven systems, fault tolerance, and data consistency models. • Distributed Systems & Low-Latency Acumen: • Strategic Autonomy & Execution: Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous, organization-wide problems from inception to production, successfully delivering high-impact business outcomes. • Strategic Autonomy & Execution: • Cross-Functional Influence: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to build technical consensus, influence cross-functional roadmaps, and align senior engineering and product stakeholders across multiple geographies. • Cross-Functional Influence: • Operational Excellence: A pragmatic, systems-thinking mindset that balances forward-looking architectural evolution with the operational realities of supporting a 24/7 financial exchange. • Operational Excellence:

Responsibilities

• Architect Strategic Infrastructure: Define and drive the long-term architectural vision for high-availability, low-latency cloud platforms, setting engineering standards that ensure performance, reliability, and portability across our global ecosystem. • Architect Strategic Infrastructure • Lead Modernization at Scale: Spearhead multi-quarter modernization initiatives, driving the transition of foundational services to resilient, containerized cloud environments while optimizing deployment pipelines and auto-scaling patterns. • Lead Modernization at Scale: • Direct High-Stakes Integrations: Lead the technical alignment and distributed architecture bridging Bitstamp’s exchange backend with Robinhood’s global infrastructure, solving complex cross-organization technical challenges. • Direct High-Stakes Integrations: • Eliminate Operational Toil & Technical Debt: Anticipate future scalability bottlenecks and architect self-healing systems and intelligent automation that radically reduce operational load and boost developer velocity. • Eliminate Operational Toil & Technical Debt: • Exercise Systemic Ownership: Take end-to-end accountability for ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives—navigating complex trade-offs between speed, resilience, cost, and maintainability. • Exercise Systemic Ownership • Foster Technical Leadership & Culture: Mentor and elevate senior engineers, lead architectural design reviews, and establish engineering best practices that raise the bar across the organization. • Foster Technical Leadership & Culture: • Uphold Platform Resilience: Act as a senior escalation point for high-severity incidents, lead rigorous post-mortems, and institute systemic safeguards to ensure 24/7 unshakeable platform integrity. • Uphold Platform Resilience:

Benefits

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career • Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, and equity ownership • Top tier benefits to fuel your work, including supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs • Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not • 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. • AI Usage Disclosure: Robinhood uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our recruiting process. These tools enhance the efficiency and consistency of our hiring process; however, all hiring decisions are made by our hiring teams. • AI Usage Disclosure: • 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.