Join Robinhood as a Staff Software Engineer to build scalable trading infrastructure in a high-impact role focused on low-latency systems.
Role intensity
40% coding
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood focuses on designing and optimizing high-performance trading APIs, ensuring low-latency and reliable data flows for active traders. Key skills include extensive backend engineering experience, familiarity with cloud infrastructure, and a strong understanding of trading systems. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about financial technology. The team emphasizes high standards and ethical practices while working on impactful projects in the finance sector.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Robinhood's career page.
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Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer role remote?
- It's hybrid — Robinhood expects some on-site time in London, UK.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer role.
- Where is the role based?
- Robinhood is hiring for this position in London, UK.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: WebSocket, AWS, MySQL, DynamoDB, FIX.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Robinhood targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer role at Robinhood.
From the original posting
Join us in building the future of finance.
Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.
We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. 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. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.
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.
What you'll do
- 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.
• 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.
Nice to have
- 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.
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact and bonus programs
- Top tier benefits to fuel your work, including supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more.
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and more!
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
- Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs
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If our mission energizes you and you’re ready to build the future of finance, we look forward to seeing your application.
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