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Robinhood Markets, Inc.

Staff Software Engineer

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You will scale trading infrastructure to meet the evolving needs of our most sophisticated users. You will design and build scalable low latency services for REST, FIX, and WebSocket APIs. You will optimize data flows to ensure correctness under pressure and continuously monitor performance. You will collaborate with product, infrastructure, and frontend teams to deliver robust API solutions. You will participate in on call rotations and support mission-critical systems used by active 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.

Requirements

  • 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: You’ve built or operated your own automated trading bot or trading system.
  • Nice to have: Hands-on experience with the FIX protocol and order management systems.
  • Nice to have: Knowledge of WebSockets, streaming market data, or real-time API performance tuning.
  • Nice to have: Passion for financial markets and an interest in building tools for professional traders.

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