Robinhood Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood leading large-scale backend platform initiatives to improve development systems, frameworks, and tooling. Focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability across backend services.
Responsibilities
You define and lead large-scale initiatives that improve backend development systems, including frameworks, tooling, and shared libraries
You design long-term technical solutions that support scalability, reliability, and maintainability across backend services
You guide the evolution of core tooling such as static analysis, formatting systems, and service scaffolding used across the codebase
You partner with engineering teams such as infrastructure, security, and product engineering to plan and execute platform improvements
You mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that improves code quality, system design, and development practices
You have extensive experience building and scaling backend systems using Go and Python
You have deep knowledge of backend frameworks such as Django, gRPC or comparable systems in Go
You have experience designing internal platforms, developer tooling (Bazel, etc), or shared infrastructure used by multiple teams
You have demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects and influence engineering direction across teams
You are committed to improving developer workflows, system quality, and maintainability through thoughtful design