- Company: Robinhood
- Location: London, UK
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: Competitive (Performance driven compensation with multipliers, bonus programs, and equity ownership)
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About the role
Robinhood is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Exchange Platform team in London. This role focuses on defining the technical vision and architectural roadmap for the Bitstamp exchange ecosystem. You will act as a primary technical leader, driving the modernization of mission-critical, low-latency services and ensuring the platform remains robust during global expansion. The position requires in-person attendance at the London office at least three days per week.
Responsibilities
- Architect Strategic Infrastructure: Define long-term architectural visions for high-availability, low-latency cloud platforms and set engineering standards for performance and reliability.
- Lead Modernization: Spearhead multi-quarter initiatives to transition foundational services to resilient, containerized cloud environments while optimizing deployment pipelines.
- Direct Integrations: Lead technical alignment and distributed architecture bridging Bitstamp’s backend with Robinhood’s global infrastructure.
- Reduce Technical Debt: Architect self-healing systems and intelligent automation to minimize operational load and improve developer velocity.
- Mentor and Lead: Elevate senior engineers, lead architectural design reviews, and establish best practices across the organization.
- Ensure Resilience: Serve as a senior escalation point for high-severity incidents and lead post-mortems to maintain 24/7 platform integrity.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in backend and distributed systems engineering, with a track record of technical leadership or Staff-level work in high-scale environments.
- Advanced expertise in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and enterprise-scale AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Aurora, DynamoDB).
- Deep understanding of high-concurrency, low-latency backend architectures, event-driven systems, and data consistency models.
- Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous, organization-wide problems from inception to production.
- Exceptional communication skills to build technical consensus and influence cross-functional roadmaps across multiple geographies.
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation to support business needs.
Pay and benefits
- Performance-driven compensation including multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, and equity ownership.
- Top-tier benefits such as supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs.
- Access to leading AI tools and continuous AI skill-building opportunities.
- A flexible employer-paid lifestyle wallet for expenses like wellness, childcare, and learning.
- Comprehensive time off including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, volunteer time off, and parental leave.
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
- Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs.
How to apply
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