Software Engineer, Software Platform (New Grad)

Job Description

About the Company

Robinhood is democratizing finance for all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers, removing fees, and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.

Robinhood is a fast-growing company and was recognized as a CNBC Disruptor 50 and a LinkedIn Top Startup in 2019. We’re continuing to grow and are looking for incredible talent that can help us achieve our mission.

Robinhood is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with offices in Lake Mary, Florida, Denver, Colorado, and London, UK.

About the Role

The Software Platform team strives to accelerate developer velocity and increase system stability by building the foundational software platforms and tools that power the rest of Robinhood engineering. We’re looking for driven software engineers who are excited by the opportunity to own mission-critical infrastructure, and are passionate about amplifying their impact by improving the reliability, scalability, and usability of the infrastructure and tools at Robinhood.

Your day-to-day will involve:

• Working with a dedicated mentor to ramp up on infrastructure at Robinhood
• Building, deploying, and augmenting tools and systems that provide core technical capabilities across all Robinhood microservices
• Diagnosing and driving fixes for performance and reliability issues that emerge at scale
• Participating in the design and execution of large initiatives to unlock new capabilities and paradigms for Robinhood microservices

Some things we consider critical for this role:

• Must be currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program with an expected graduation date in 2021
• Solid CS fundamentals, ideally with coursework or experience in distributed systems, operating systems, and networking
• Grit and tenacity to dive into novel systems and technologies, identifying problems and building impactful solutions
• Interest in building software to help other engineers, eliminating pain points, improving quality/stability, and reducing toil

Bonus points:

• Prior internship or project experience where you dove into cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) or developer tools

Technologies we use:

• Go, Python/Django as the main languages and frameworks of choice
• AWS, Kubernetes, Hashicorp Vault, Terraform, SaltStack, Jenkins
• Consul, Unbound, nginx, gRPC
• Prometheus, Grafana, statsd, Jaeger, Sentry, pganalyze, ELK
• Kafka, Zookeeper, RabbitMQ, Celery
• PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached

Feeling ready to give 100% to democratizing finance for all? We’d 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, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

The role associated with the above job description is subject to possible modification due to the shelter-in-place restrictions as a result of the pandemic.