Director of Engineering, Brokerage PlatformPosted today

The opportunity

Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades.

What you'll do

  • Own the full engineering strategy and delivery for Brokerage Platform: spanning Market Data & Symbology, Trading Platform, Clearing, and Brokerage Infrastructure — setting the technical direction and ensuring the org executes with reliability and conviction

  • Lead and develop a large, distributed engineering organization of senior and: staff-level engineers and engineering managers — building the talent, culture, and bench strength the org needs to sustain high performance over time

  • Drive platform investments that have direct business impact: identifying the modernization, reliability, and scalability bets worth making, building the conviction behind them, and seeing them through to measurable outcomes

  • Partner tightly with your TPM counterpart to manage a high volume of incoming: asks from trading, crypto, active trader, and event contracts product teams — prioritizing ruthlessly and protecting engineering capacity for the work that matters most

  • Own the reliability and operational health of systems that run continuously: around market-critical functions — ensuring the org is prepared for high-severity incidents and has the processes and tooling to resolve them fast

  • Engage deeply with cross-functional leadership across Robinhood: representing Brokerage Platform's roadmap, dependencies, and capabilities to product, ops, and executive stakeholders

What they're looking for

  • Champion platform modernization and technical debt reduction: driving initiatives like stack rewrites, sharding, multi-region scaling, and infrastructure abstractions that unlock velocity across the entire engineering org