Staff Software Engineer, Crypto
at Robinhood
New York, United States
Join us in building the future of finance.
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.
About the team + role
Robinhood vision is to become the most trusted, lowest-cost, and most culturally relevant money app worldwide. You’ll be joining the Crypto Trading Team and will be tasked with designing, building, and maintaining the services that power and accelerate our crypto products, platforms, and operations, with the goal of building the world’s best crypto trading platform. The team is dedicated to pushing boundaries and constantly innovating to stay ahead in the fast-paced world of cryptocurrency. We are looking for a passionate and skilled team member to join us on this exciting journey.
As the Tech Lead of Crypto Trading, you will act as a technical leader, systems architect, problem solver, coder and liaison to all engineering/product groups.
This role is based in our NYC or MPK offices, with in-person attendance expected at least 4 days per week.
At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.
What you’ll do
- Creating and driving the area’s technical strategy and roadmap based on broad and deep understanding of the crypto domain and horizontal platforms
- Setting technical standards and making strategic technology choices
- Providing technical leadership via design reviews, project execution, and owning outcomes for the organization
- Up-leveling the overall crypto product architecture and designs
- Partnering with product to define the vision of crypto trading products
- Going deep into technical areas with a hands-on approach to root-cause tough issues
- Continuously improving the reliability and scalability of all services while holding the highest security standards
- Advancing the operational excellence, efficiency, and sustainability of all production services
- Mentoring senior and junior engineers and up-leveling the engineering organization
- Making hard tradeoffs between taking on or paying down technical debt while maintaining forward progress on new products and features
- Collaborating with other tech leaders across the company to ensure that Robinhood’s overall technical direction is coherent, effective, and efficient
- Recruiting Staff+ engineers for Robinhood.
What you bring
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years technically leading large engineering organizations with multiple teams
- Strong technical judgment and expertise with a focus on reliability, scalability, and correctness
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and influence skills
- Strong partnership and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to quickly learn complicated business domains in a highly regulated space
- Experience with teams that work in a highly-collaborative fashion and focus on optimizing for customer value
- Python + Django/Golang/Postgres architectures
- Experience with financial systems and Crypto domains
What we offer
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
- Best in class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
In addition to the base pay range listed below, this role is also eligible for bonus opportunities + equity + benefits.
Base pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected base pay range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed and is aligned to one of 3 compensation zones. For other locations not listed, compensation can be discussed with your recruiter during the interview process.
Base Pay Range:
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If our mission energizes you and you’re ready to build the future of finance, we look forward to seeing your application.
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