Staff Software Engineer, Robinhood

• Experience architecting and designing large scale distributed systems
• Experience with data integration technologies, message queues, and workflow architectures
• Ability leading platform teams of 6 or more engineers to drive technical improvements, while continuing to have business-wide impact
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Go, and experience with large areas of the team’s tech stack (Postgres, Kafka, K8s, Airflow, Redis or similar technologies)
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with a proven track record of working effectively in large, cross-functional teams

Desirable

• Technical Vision & Strategy: Plan, design, and lead new development toward a scalable, reliable, and performant platform for ingesting, processing, and delivering data to internal services
• Technical Leadership: Drive technical direction by keeping a pulse on the teams’ projects to provide feedback, perform architecture reviews, and help make key decisions as needed
• Engineering Excellence: Deeply understand the operational challenges the team faces and collaborate to create new, self-sustaining processes that adhere to industry best practices and standards. This is to drive excellence in areas such as testing, on call, CI/CD, release management, DevEx, and more
• Mentorship: Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance, reviews, and generally up-leveling the team
• Software Development: Take a hands-on approach by owning and implementing solutions for critical and/or particularly complex projects
• Collaboration: Navigate conversations and align on tough decisions with numerous stakeholders while representing t