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Director of Engineering, Brokerage Platform

Robinhood · Menlo Park, CA · On-site

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About Robinhood

Trade stocks on Robinhood with commission-free investing & advanced trading tools. Access fractional shares, real-time market data, and more. Terms and fees may apply. Backed by Index, Kleiner Perkins and NEA.

About the role

Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 6+ years in engineering leadership roles — including demonstrated experience as a Director or Senior Director managing large, multi-team engineering organizations
  • Deep platform engineering background — you've owned and driven the technical direction of foundational backend platforms at scale, not just product features built on top of them
  • A track record of driving platform modernization bets that delivered real business outcomes — you've made the case for a large technical investment, executed it, and pointed to the result
  • Comfort operating in a high-severity, always-on engineering environment — you've led teams through major incidents and built the systems and culture to minimize their recurrence
  • Strong background with distributed systems, backend services at scale, Go or Python, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
More about this role

Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world's biggest financial problems. We're looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn't a place for complacency, it's where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We're a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

The Brokerage Platform org is the backbone of everything Robinhood trades, clears, and settles. It is the underlying infrastructure that powers every equities trade, every options contract, every event contract, and every crypto transaction that moves through our platform — and it is the foundation on which Robinhood's most important business lines are built. The org spans four deeply interconnected teams: Market Data & Symbology (the real-time and...

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