Engineering Manager, Robinhood
Credit Cards Platform
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Commission-free stock trading & investing app
Job no longer available
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize finance for all.
Role
Who you are
- You thrive in complex environments that demand an eye for both detail and for seeing the big picture
- Ability to absorb a new domain, identify key opportunities, and assemble an executable agenda that you can then drive through your teams
- Comfort navigating decisions with tradeoffs under time pressure
- No less than 2 years of experience in an engineering leadership role
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals: in addition to having an undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, you love the art of creation through code
- Hungry to grow in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that will challenge you to always bring your best
- You drive yourself and your teams to bring quality and consistency to their code and architecture, without compromising velocity
- While not required, prior experience with ML/AI infrastructure and operations, payment processing, payment systems, or third party integrations is a plus
What the job involves
- We seek an Engineering Manager with technical depth, strong ownership and accountability to lead the Credit Card Platform team as it takes our credit processing rails to the next level
- You will own the roadmap, execution and scaling across all essential credit card operations and functionality (payments, transactions, statements, credit reporting, collections, disputes) as well as our risk and fraud infrastructure
- Take our credit operation pipelines - which critically underlie all other parts of the X1 Card - to the next level as we scale to billions of dollars in annual spend
- Shape the Card Platform roadmap, balancing technical priorities with stakeholder needs
- Own your org’s delivery and execution excellence against tight timelines while encouraging creativity
- Grow and develop world-class teams in a dynamic and exciting business environment
- Evolve our early data science and ML capabilities on risk and fraud into cutting-edge technological advantages that will hyperscale with the business
- Collaborate closely with our founders, Head of Engineering, Chief Credit Officer, and Head of Fraud
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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