Join a leading fintech company thatâs democratizing finance for all.
Robinhood was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.
As we continue to build...
Weâre seeking curious thinkers looking to co-author the next chapters of our story. Joining now means helping shape our vision, structures and systems; playing a key-role as we launch into our ambitious future.
About the team:
The preferred location for this position is in or around Robinhood's offices in Menlo Park, CA or Seattle, WA or New York City, NY, but remote work in limited geographies within the U.S. may be considered. Check with your recruiter for more information.
As a Software Engineer on the Streaming Platform Team, you'll be building large scale distributed systems powering nearly all microservice communication and stream processing across the company.
We build platforms to enable real-time streaming, stateful stream processing, and database change data capture. We heavily rely on open source frameworks and build our platforms on top of them. These platforms power everything from placing a trade on the Robinhood app, to new products like IPO Access, to critical day to day business operations.
Our customers are product engineers, infrastructure engineers, ML engineers, data engineers, data scientists, and analysts with Robinhood. We collaborate closely with them to provide reliable, secure, and delightful platforms that enable them to unlock new ways of solving problems.
Our teams are fairly new, and we're just getting started to modernize data infra inside Robinhood. We would love for you to join us as we build the next generation of data platforms.
What youâll do day-to-day:
- Designing, operating, integrating, and developing data infrastructure platforms
- Collaborating closely with our internal customers to develop highly effective platforms
- Working with open source technologies like Kafka, Flink, and Debezium (with opportunities to contribute back to the community!)
- Building a phenomenal customer experience for developers using the infrastructure you build
- Mentoring and coaching others to drive successful projects across the team
About you:
- 4+ years of software engineering experience.
- Fluent in one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Java)
- Experience with building scalable distributed systems, both from scratch as well as on open source frameworks.
- Passionate about building platforms for developers and data professionals
- Deep understanding of the tradeoffs between different data tools and technologies
- Strong verbal and communication skills.
- Comfortable with working on containerized technologies
Bonus points:
- Passion for working and learning in a fast-growing company
- Proven experience building and handling large scale data systems
- You have opinions on Kafka vs Kinesis, Spark vs Flink
- Contributions to open source projects like Kafka, Spark, Hudi, Flink e.t.c.
- Love talking to other engineers and enjoy debugging issues in all parts of the stack
Technologies we use:
- Kafka
- Flink
- Spark
- Hudi
- Docker and Kubernetes
- AWS
The expected salary range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed and is aligned to one of 3 compensation zones. This role is also eligible to participate in a Robinhood bonus plan and Robinhoodâs equity plan.
US Zone 1: $187000 - $220000
US Zone 2: $165000 - $194000
US Zone 3: $146000 - $172000
Base pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. You can view comp zones for our US office locations in the table below. For other locations not listed, compensation can be discussed with your recruiter during the interview process.
Office locations (by comp zone)
US Zone 1: Menlo Park, NYC, Seattle, Washington DC
US Zone 2: Denver, Westlake (Dallas), Chicago
US Zone 3: Lake Mary
Weâre looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all. If youâre ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our missionâweâd love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Robinhood, we're looking for people invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.
Robinhood promotes diversity and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are dedicated to building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work (and work environment) will be for everyone. Additionally, Robinhood provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights. To review Robinhood's Privacy Policy please visit Robinhood - US Applicant Privacy Policy. If you are an an applicant located in the UK or EEA, please visit the Robinhood UK/EEA Applicant Privacy Policy.
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