Senior Software Developer, Robinhood
Developer Experience
CA$166-195k
+ Equity + Bonus
3-5 days a week in office
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
Be an early applicant
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$166-195k
+ Equity + Bonus
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize finance for all.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building and maintaining developer infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, or large-scale build systems (such as Bazel)
- Proficiency in writing clean, maintainable code in Go or Python
- Experience with distributed or remote build execution systems, and a solid understanding of containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes
- Strong problem-solving skills and a focus on improving developer productivity, onboarding, and engineering workflows
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Developer, you will focus on building and scaling our developer infrastructure
- You will manage and optimize monorepo builds with Bazel and own the remote build execution cluster that powers them, and you will scale CI pipelines to be fast, safe, and reliable across thousands of daily builds
- You will also improve the developer onboarding experience and provide remote development environments to accelerate development workflows
- In this role, you will ensure developers can code, test, and deploy with minimal friction
- This is an incredible opportunity to make a massive difference for the entire engineering organization!
- Manage and optimize monorepo builds using Bazel and own the remote build execution cluster, ensuring fast, stable builds and short feedback loops for our engineering teams
- Scale CI pipelines to support thousands of daily builds, focusing on speed, safety, and reliability, while managing GitHub repository configurations, pre-merge checks, and test executions
- Improve the developer onboarding experience, reducing time-to-first-commit and making it easy for new engineers to get productive
- Provide and maintain remote development environments to accelerate local workflows and ensure developers can code, test, and deploy with minimal friction
Our take
For years, traditional brokers ruled the share trading realm, charging hefty fees that locked out everyday investors. Robinhood emerged as a disruptor, offering commission-free trading and opening the door to a new generation. Since then, expectations have continued to evolve, with investors looking not just to lower costs, but for simpler tools, clearer information, and guidance that makes the market easier to understand.
Robinhood was built to meet those changing expectations, designed from the start as a mobile-first platform that makes investor more accessible and less intimidating for people at every stage of their financial journey. Through its app, users can trade stocks and other financial instruments while benefiting from a clean interface and built-in educational support, helping them move from curiosity to confidence without unnecessary complexity.
Recently, Robinhood has strenghtned its impact too, particularly in the UK. With the launch of AI-powered Digests within its Robinhood Cortex assistant that helps users understand what's driving stock movements in plain English, while upcoming options trading and expanded educational resources add flexibility and depth. Together, these steps position Robinhood as a platform evolving alongside its users, blending technology and education to stay ahead in an ever-changing investment landscape.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2021
$2.4bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jan 2021
$1bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $5.6bn
Company HQ
Downtown Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Vlad Tenev
(Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman)Studied Mathematics at Stanford University, where they met Baiju. Dropped out of a PhD to start Robinhood. Alongside Robinhood, Vlad is also the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Harmonic.
Baiju B.
(Co-Founder)Studied Mathematics and Physics at Stanford University, where they met their Vlad and co-founded Robinhood in 2012. Baiju is also the Founder and CEO of Aetherflux.
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