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Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform

Robinhood· ENG Data and AI Platform Division
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full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer role focused on leading large, multi-team initiatives to improve backend development systems, tooling, and platform capabilities while guiding adoption and ensuring scalability and reliability. Based in New York City with in-person presence required at least 3 days/week.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead large-scale initiatives that improve backend development systems, including frameworks, tooling, and shared libraries
  • Design long-term technical solutions that support scalability, reliability, and maintainability across backend services
  • Guide the evolution of core tooling such as static analysis, formatting systems, and service scaffolding used across the codebase
  • Partner with engineering teams such as infrastructure, security, and product engineering to plan and execute platform improvements
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that improves code quality, system design, and development practices

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience building and scaling backend systems using Go and Python
  • Deep knowledge of backend frameworks such as Django, gRPC or comparable systems in Go
  • Experience designing internal platforms, developer tooling (Bazel, etc), or shared infrastructure used by multiple teams
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects and influence engineering direction across teams
  • Commitment to improving developer workflows, system quality, and maintainability through thoughtful design

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
  • 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
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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