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About the Role
We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. The Backend Platform team’s mission is to enable fast, safe, and reliable backend development at scale by building and maintaining shared frameworks, libraries, and tooling. This role focuses on solving complex system-level challenges, influencing engineering practices across teams, and ensuring long-term scalability and reliability of backend development.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead large-scale initiatives that improve backend development systems, including frameworks, tooling, and shared libraries.
- Design long-term technical solutions that support scalability, reliability, and maintainability across backend services.
- Guide the evolution of core tooling such as static analysis, formatting systems, and service scaffolding used across the codebase.
- Partner with engineering teams such as infrastructure, security, and product engineering to plan and execute platform improvements.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that improves code quality, system design, and development practices.
Requirements
- Extensive experience building and scaling backend systems using Go and Python.
- Deep knowledge of backend frameworks such as Django, gRPC or comparable systems in Go.
- Experience designing internal platforms, developer tooling (Bazel, etc), or shared infrastructure used by multiple teams.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects and influence engineering direction across teams.
- Commitment to improving developer workflows, system quality, and maintainability through thoughtful design.
Skills
- Go
- Python
- Django
- gRPC
- Bazel
Location
- New York City, New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Staff
Salary/Compensations
- $230,000—$270,000 USD (Zone 1)
- $203,000—$238,000 USD (Zone 2)
- $180,000—$211,000 USD (Zone 3)
Benefits
- Supplemental health insurance
- Ancillary insurance
- Mental health support programs
- Lifestyle wallet
- Company holidays
- Paid time off
- Sick time
- Paid volunteer time off
- Parental leave
- Catered meals
- Events
- Comfortable workspaces
- Monthly commuter stipend
- Bonus opportunities
- Equity ownership
About the Company
- Our mission is to democratize finance for all.
- We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems.
- Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers.
- We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do.
- At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community.
- Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.
Equal Opportunity
- Robinhood provides equal opportunity for all applicants, offers reasonable accommodations upon request, and complies with applicable equal employment and privacy laws.
- Inclusion is built into how we hire and work—welcoming different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences so everyone can do their best.