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Director of Engineering, Brokerage Platform

Robinhood· Brokerage Engineering
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Menlo Park, CA$294k - $345kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Director of Engineering leading Robinhood's Brokerage Platform, owning technical strategy, people leadership, and delivery execution for a large, high-stakes backend platform spanning Market Data & Symbology, Trading Platform, Clearing, and Brokerage Infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Own the full engineering strategy and delivery for Brokerage Platform — spanning Market Data & Symbology, Trading Platform, Clearing, and Brokerage Infrastructure — setting the technical direction and ensuring the org executes with reliability and conviction
  • Lead and develop a large, distributed engineering organization of senior and staff-level engineers and engineering managers — building the talent, culture, and bench strength the org needs to sustain high performance over time
  • Drive platform investments that have direct business impact — identifying the modernization, reliability, and scalability bets worth making, building the conviction behind them, and seeing them through to measurable outcomes
  • Partner tightly with your TPM counterpart to manage a high volume of incoming asks from trading, crypto, active trader, and event contracts product teams — prioritizing ruthlessly and protecting engineering capacity for the work that matters most
  • Own the reliability and operational health of systems that run continuously around market-critical functions — ensuring the org is prepared for high-severity incidents and has the processes and tooling to resolve them fast
  • Engage deeply with cross-functional leadership across Robinhood — representing Brokerage Platform's roadmap, dependencies, and capabilities to product, ops, and executive stakeholders
  • Champion platform modernization and technical debt reduction — driving initiatives like stack rewrites, sharding, multi-region scaling, and infrastructure abstractions that unlock velocity across the entire engineering org

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 6+ years in engineering leadership roles — including demonstrated experience as a Director or Senior Director managing large, multi-team engineering organizations
  • Deep platform engineering background — you've owned and driven the technical direction of foundational backend platforms at scale, not just product features built on top of them
  • Experience at the intersection of financial services, trading, brokerage, or adjacent high-criticality domains is a strong plus — depth in one or two sub-domains (market data, clearing, order execution, or brokerage infrastructure) is meaningful
  • A track record of driving platform modernization bets that delivered real business outcomes
  • Comfort operating in a high-severity, always-on engineering environment
  • Strong background with distributed systems, backend services at scale, Go or Python, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
  • Background from fintech/trading/crypto or large-scale consumer platforms is a strong plus

Skills

Required:Software engineeringDistributed systemsGo or PythonCloud infrastructure

Benefits

  • Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
  • Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
  • Top Tier benefits including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
  • Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund for eligible US employees to invest in Robinhood Ventures funds
  • Access to AI tools and ongoing AI skill-building
  • Lifestyle wallet for wellness, learning, and more
  • Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
  • Paid time off including holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, and more
  • Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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