Senior Web Engineer, Legend

Robinhood

Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Menlo Park, CANew York, NY
Salary
$196,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role pays more than 54% of similar roles. Most pay $178,318–$247,050 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $213k versus about $213k for comparable roles.

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About Robinhood

Robinhood is a financial technology company offering commission-free stock, ETF, options, and cryptocurrency trading through its mobile app, aimed at democratizing access to financial markets. Industry: Financial Technology & Investment App

Robinhood currently has 81 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $187,000–$220,000 across 81 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Web Engineer, Legend

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As a Senior Web Engineer on the Robinhood Legend team, you will focus on enhancing web performance for an advanced desktop trading platform designed for active and sophisticated traders. Your daily tasks include profiling and optimizing JavaScript internals, browser rendering pipelines, and real-time data handling to ensure the platform is fast and responsive. You’ll also build high-frequency UI components that handle streaming market data efficiently, establish performance benchmarks, and drive a culture of continuous improvement through code reviews and technical documentation. The role requires expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, and familiarity with complex developer ecosystems like Bazel, as well as experience in frontend infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

JavaScript TypeScript Bazel CI/CD Docker Kubernetes PostgreSQL React Angular Vue.js Webpack Git GitHub Jenkins Terraform AWS GCP Azure Prometheus Grafana GraphQL REST Swagger JSON YAML Python Node.js

What you'll do

  • Lead web performance initiatives, profiling and diagnosing issues to improve speed and responsiveness.
  • Optimize JavaScript internals and browser rendering pipelines for a best-in-class trading platform experience.
  • Build high-frequency real-time UI components that handle streaming market data efficiently.
  • Establish and maintain performance benchmarks and monitoring systems for the team.
  • Drive a performance-first culture through code reviews, documentation, and engineering standards.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of web development experience with a focus on infrastructure or platform engineering.
  • Strong programming skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, and another language.
  • Experience working on frontend infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, or internal tools.
  • Ability to reduce developer friction and increase engineering productivity through technical solutions.
  • Comfortable working in complex ecosystems with hundreds of developers as stakeholders.
  • Mindset for building meta-level systems and tools that enhance other engineers' effectiveness.

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