Staff Software Engineer (Backend Platform)
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- 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
- Expectations are high, and so are the rewards
- The Backend Platform team’s mission is to enable fast, safe, and reliable backend development at scale
- The team builds and maintains shared frameworks, libraries, and tooling that support hundreds of engineers working across backend services
- By improving development workflows, strengthening security practices, and standardizing how services are built and maintained, this team plays a critical role in how quickly and safely products reach customers
- You will help shape the foundation that backend engineers rely on every day!
- As a Staff Software Developer, you will set technical direction and lead large, multi-team initiatives that improve how backend systems are developed and operated
- You will design and guide adoption of platform capabilities such as service frameworks, static analysis systems, and developer 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
- You will also support engineers through technical guidance and contribute to planning and execution of major platform investments!
- You define and lead large-scale initiatives that improve backend development systems, including frameworks, tooling, and shared libraries
- You design long-term technical solutions that support scalability, reliability, and maintainability across backend services
- You guide the evolution of core tooling such as static analysis, formatting systems, and service scaffolding used across the codebase
- You partner with engineering teams such as infrastructure, security, and product engineering to plan and execute platform improvements
- You mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that improves code quality, system design, and development practices
- We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact
- You have demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects and influence engineering direction across teams
- You are committed to improving developer workflows, system quality, and maintainability through thoughtful design
- You have deep knowledge of backend frameworks such as Django, gRPC or comparable systems in Go
- You have extensive experience building and scaling backend systems using Go and Python
- You have experience designing internal platforms, developer tooling (Bazel, etc), or shared infrastructure used by multiple teams