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Staff Software Engineer

Robinhood· Bitstamp - Engineering Division
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London, UK£0full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Staff Backend Engineer role on the Exchange Platform team focused on defining vision, architecture, and engineering standards for platform modernization, cloud infrastructure, and high-availability, low-latency services within Robinhood/Bitstamp exchange ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Architect Strategic Infrastructure: Define and drive the long-term architectural vision for high-availability, low-latency cloud platforms, setting engineering standards that ensure performance, reliability, and portability across our global ecosystem.
  • Lead Modernization at Scale: Spearhead multi-quarter modernization initiatives, driving the transition of foundational services to resilient, containerized cloud environments while optimizing deployment pipelines and auto-scaling patterns.
  • Direct High-Stakes Integrations: Lead the technical alignment and distributed architecture bridging Bitstamp’s exchange backend with Robinhood’s global infrastructure, solving complex cross-organization technical challenges.
  • Eliminate Operational Toil & Technical Debt: Anticipate future scalability bottlenecks and architect self-healing systems and intelligent automation that radically reduce operational load and boost developer velocity.
  • Exercise Systemic Ownership: Take end-to-end accountability for ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives—navigating complex trade-offs between speed, resilience, cost, and maintainability.
  • Foster Technical Leadership & Culture: Mentor and elevate senior engineers, lead architectural design reviews, and establish engineering best practices that raise the bar across the organization.
  • Uphold Platform Resilience: Act as a senior escalation point for high-severity incidents, lead rigorous post-mortems, and institute systemic safeguards to ensure 24/7 unshakeable platform integrity.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of relevant experience in backend and distributed systems engineering, with a proven track record of operating as a technical lead or Staff-level engineer in high-scale environments.
  • Advanced architectural expertise with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and enterprise-scale AWS cloud services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Aurora, DynamoDB).
  • Deep understanding of high-concurrency, low-latency backend architectures, event-driven systems, fault tolerance, and data consistency models.
  • Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous, organization-wide problems from inception to production, successfully delivering high-impact business outcomes.
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to build technical consensus, influence cross-functional roadmaps, and align senior engineering and product stakeholders across multiple geographies.
  • A pragmatic, systems-thinking mindset that balances forward-looking architectural evolution with the operational realities of supporting a 24/7 financial exchange.

Skills

Required:Technical LeadershipCloud & Container MasteryDistributed Systems & Low-LatencyStrategic Autonomy

Benefits

  • Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
  • Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, and equity ownership
  • Top tier benefits to fuel your work, including supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs
  • Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not
  • Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more
  • Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and more
  • Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces
  • Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs
  • Total Rewards information available via company link (region/entity varies)
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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