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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Robinhood
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Fault Tolerance, Systems Integration, Autoscaling, Delivery Pipeline, Technical Debt, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Docker
- **Published:** October 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-robinhoodapp-10377432

## About the Role

* Extensive Technical Leadership: 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.
 * Deep Cloud & Container Mastery: Advanced architectural expertise with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and enterprise-scale AWS cloud services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Aurora, DynamoDB).
 * Distributed Systems & Low-Latency Acumen: Deep understanding of high-concurrency, low-latency backend architectures, event-driven systems, fault tolerance, and data consistency models.
 * Strategic Autonomy & Execution: Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous, organization-wide problems from inception to production, successfully delivering high-impact business outcomes.
 * Cross-Functional Influence: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to build technical consensus, influence cross-functional roadmaps, and align senior engineering and product stakeholders across multiple geographies.
 * Operational Excellence: A pragmatic, systems-thinking mindset that balances forward-looking architectural evolution with the operational realities of supporting a 24/7 financial exchange.

## Description

* 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.