This role pays more than
80%
of similar roles. Most pay
$147,500–$238,250
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$250k
versus about
$193k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
46 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$217,000–$255,000
across 40 roles with salary data.
Staff Software Engineer, Brokerage Infra joins the Brokerage Infrastructure team to manage Robinhood's tier zero, mission-critical systems responsible for order processing, account management, and platform availability. This high-visibility leadership role involves defining the technical vision and roadmap for the platform while managing a team of over ten engineers. Key responsibilities include leading modernization initiatives to resolve storage bottlenecks, owning reliability and uptime KPIs such as subsecond order latency, and coordinating incident responses during high-volume trading events. The ideal candidate possesses over ten years of experience with mission-critical systems at scale, specifically handling millions of transactions per second. They must demonstrate expertise in architectural migrations, language rewrites, traffic routing simplification, and storage improvements. This role solves critical problems regarding system correctness and reliability within the financial order execution and account management domain.
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