Senior Staff Software Developer, Robinhood
Developer Productivity & AI Tooling
CA$234-275k
+ Eligible for bonus opportunities + equity
3+ days a week in office
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
Open for applications
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$234-275k
+ Eligible for bonus opportunities + equity
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize finance for all.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years operating at Staff or Senior Staff level
- Deep expertise in developer infrastructure (CI/CD, build systems, testing frameworks, dev environments, observability)
- Strong backend engineering skills with proficiency in Go, Python, or TypeScript/JavaScript
- Proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional platform initiatives at scale
- Exceptional system design skills, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
- Experience with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, service discovery, distributed systems)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD systems (e.g., CircleCI, Jenkins, Harness) and release orchestration
- Experience building internal developer platforms, CLIs (preferably in Go), and productivity tooling
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and cloud platforms like GCP
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools in production environments
- Interest or experience in applying AI to developer productivity, incident management, or automation
- Ability to evaluate and safely integrate AI systems into engineering workflows
- Strong technical leadership with the ability to influence across teams and organizational boundaries
- Excellent communication skills, with experience driving alignment across engineering and product stakeholders
- Passion for developer experience and enabling other engineers to do their best work
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Developer to lead the evolution of our developer experience and AI-powered engineering ecosystem. In this role, you’ll operate as a technical leader and architect across the organization, shaping strategy, defining standards, and driving large-scale initiatives that improve developer velocity, system reliability, and engineering quality
- You’ll work at the intersection of developer tooling, platform infrastructure, and AI-assisted development, pioneering how Robinhood engineers build, test, deploy, and operate software
- Architect and build scalable systems that enable fast, reliable delivery of full-stack applications, with a strong focus on enhancing the overall developer experience
- Set technical direction and standards for developer infrastructure across build systems, CI/CD, testing, and local development
- Lead design reviews, operational readiness, and post-incident analysis for critical developer platforms
- Leveraging AI to power the next generation development workflow
- Identify and eliminate friction across the software development lifecycle
- Build and evolve developer tooling including CLIs, configuration systems, and local/remote development environments
- Drive improvements in build systems, test automation, and deployment workflows
- Champion best practices in code quality, observability, and operational excellence
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude) across engineering teams
- Design and implement agentic workflows for development and operations (e.g., automated code generation, incident triage, root cause analysis)
- Evaluate and integrate AI agents for anomaly detection, alert correlation, and automated remediation
- Establish best practices for safe, secure, and effective use of AI in software development
- Design and operate services on AWS with strong attention to scalability, cost efficiency, and security
- Lead Kubernetes-based platform improvements, including developer workflows for containerized environments
- Drive Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) strategy and adoption across environments
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Harness, Jenkins, CircleCI) with a focus on reliability and speed
- Own non-functional requirements including availability, scalability, latency, and security
- Ensure systems are observable through metrics, logs, and alerting
- Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts
- Reduce operational toil through automation and platform improvements
- Partner with Product, Platform, and SRE teams to align on long-term technical strategy
- Lead large-scale, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams
- Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization
- Contribute to a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement
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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