Staff Software Engineer, Robinhood

Salary not provided

+ Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact and bonus programs

SQL

AWS

MySQL

REST API

DynamoDB

WebSocket

Expert level

London

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

FintechB2CCryptocurrencyMarketplaceTrading

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

+ Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact and bonus programs

SQL

AWS

MySQL

REST API

DynamoDB

WebSocket

Expert level

London

3-5 days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2CCryptocurrencyMarketplaceTrading

Company mission

To democratize finance for all.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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.

Desirable

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

What the job involves

Our Core Exchange team is responsible for all trading interfaces — including the Exchange REST API, FIX API, WebSockets, and market data services. The team’s mission is to deliver a best-in-class trading experience for API users, with a relentless focus on latency, reliability, and data correctness
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help scale our trading infrastructure to meet the evolving needs of our most sophisticated users. This is a high-impact role for engineers who love low-latency systems, deeply care about precision, and want to directly shape the tools used by active traders worldwide
Requires participation in an on-call rotation to support business needs
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

Salary benchmarks

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

Top investors

39% female employees

-23% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

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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