About the company
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. The largest transfer of wealth in human history.
About the team + role
The Brokerage Platform org is the backbone of everything Robinhood trades, clears, and settles. It is the underlying infrastructure that powers every equities trade, every options contract, every event contract, and every crypto transaction that moves through our platform. The org spans four deeply interconnected teams: Market Data & Symbology, Trading Platform, Clearing, and Brokerage Infrastructure.
As the Director of Engineering, Brokerage Platform, you will lead one of Robinhood's largest and most consequential engineering organizations. You will own the technical strategy, people leadership, and delivery execution for a broad, high-stakes platform. This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA office, with in-person attendance expected 5 days per week.
What you'll do
- Own the full engineering strategy and delivery for Brokerage Platform — spanning Market Data & Symbology, Trading Platform, Clearing, and Brokerage Infrastructure
- Lead and develop a large, distributed engineering organization of senior and staff-level engineers and engineering managers
- Drive platform investments that have direct business impact
- Partner tightly with your TPM counterpart to manage a high volume of incoming asks from trading, crypto, active trader, and event contracts product teams
- Own the reliability and operational health of systems that run continuously around market-critical functions
- Engage deeply with cross-functional leadership across Robinhood
- Champion platform modernization and technical debt reduction
What you bring
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 6+ years in engineering leadership roles — including demonstrated experience as a Director or Senior Director managing large, multi-team engineering organizations
- Deep platform engineering background
- (big plus) Experience at the intersection of financial services, trading, brokerage, or adjacent high-criticality domains
- A track record of driving platform modernization bets that delivered real business outcomes
- Comfort operating in a high-severity, always-on engineering environment
- Strong background with distributed systems, backend services at scale, Go or Python, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Background from high-performance engineering organizations in fintech, trading, crypto, or large