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Staff Software Engineer, Credit Cards & Banking Infrastructure

Robinhood Banking is building the infrastructure to scale banking services from millions to tens of millions of customers. We are seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to lead a small, elite pod and drive the long-term technical strategy for highly available, scalable banking systems.

Skills

  • Proven experience scaling complex, high-availability production systems
  • Breadth across DevOps, SRE, backend performance, developer experience, and infrastructure
  • Strong technical judgment and ability to make high-impact decisions under pressure
  • Experience with deployment pipelines, canaries, load testing, and recovery tooling
  • Track record building fault-tolerant distributed systems and modernizing release pipelines
  • Hands-on leadership and ability to build alongside a small, high-caliber team

Responsibilities

  • Lead high-stakes scaling initiatives to support millions of additional customers
  • Set and drive long-term technical strategy for banking infrastructure
  • Decide which infrastructure components to keep, evolve, or replace and lead those transitions
  • Design highly available, fault-tolerant systems for transaction-critical services
  • Establish best practices for load testing, canary releases, recovery tooling, and deployment pipelines
  • Improve stability across databases, compute, deployments, and distributed systems
  • Reduce operational friction by improving on-call processes, incident response, and recovery protocols
  • Invest in developer experience to accelerate safe, low-risk iteration

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience preferred
  • Advanced degree a plus but not required; equivalent hands-on experience accepted

Benefits

  • Performance-driven compensation, bonus opportunities, and equity ownership
  • 401(k) matching
  • 100% employer-paid health insurance for employees, ~90% coverage for dependents
  • Lifestyle wallet for wellness and learning expenses
  • Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility and mental health benefits
  • Paid time off, parental leave, company holidays, and sick time
  • Catered meals, events, and high-quality office experience
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Robinhood is a leading financial services company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The company was founded in 2013 and currently has 23.9 million funded customers, 13.7 million monthly active users, and $130 billion in assets under custody.

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Dare to be Different
Reward & Recognition
Fast-Paced
BENEFITS & PERKS
Maternity Leave
Paternity Leave
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Mental Health Resources
Life insurance
Disability Insurance
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
401K Matching
Paid Holidays
Paid Sick Days
Paid Time-Off
Learning & Development
Social Gatherings
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$217,000/yr - $255,000/yr
EMPLOYMENT TYPE
Full-time, hybrid
DATE POSTED
August 19, 2025
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