About the company
Robinhood builds a trading platform for active investors, including research, charting, portfolio management, and execution. The Trading Tools team owns the stock detail page, advanced charts, trading ladder, portfolio, and watchlists.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical vision for mobile across iOS and Android and own execution quality while remaining hands-on in iOS.
- Own the architecture of a scalable iOS application supporting stock detail, advanced charts, the trading ladder, watchlists, and portfolio.
- Build modular, extensible mobile architecture with self-contained components that enable cross-functional teams to build, test, and ship independently.
- Align iOS and Android on architecture, data contracts, feature parity, and release sequencing.
- Improve application performance, real-time data handling, observability, and release stability across core trading workflows, including rendering, launch time, and page-load time.
- Evolve charting and research experiences for active traders and lead integration of AI-driven capabilities into mobile trading, research, and portfolio workflows.
- Lead technical planning, system design reviews, implementation discussions, and incident resolution for high-stakes trading features.
- Partner with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and data teams on experiments and product release decisions.
- Mentor iOS and Android engineers through code reviews, technical feedback, and structured development support; help senior engineers expand toward staff-level scope and define engineering standards and documentation.
- Influence mobile platform direction beyond the team through collaboration with adjacent organizations and company-wide initiatives.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional iOS application development experience, including building and maintaining large-scale apps with Swift and modern iOS frameworks (UIKit, SwiftUI).
- Experience owning the technical direction of a product area or platform.
- Experience designing mobile systems with clear architecture patterns, scalable component design, and maintainable testing strategies for data-intensive or real-time use cases.
- Track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams or platforms, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform improvements.
- Strong working knowledge of Android development principles.
- Ability to collaborate with product, design, backend, and infrastructure partners to deliver customer-focused technical solutions.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex trading concepts into intuitive mobile experiences.
- History of mentoring engineers and fostering engineering excellence.
- Nice to have: experience with financial platforms, trading systems, or real-time market data products; server-driven UI, embedded web or React Native surfaces, live audio/video streaming, or LLM-powered product features.
Conditions
- Hybrid role based in the New York, NY office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.
- Challenging, high-impact work; performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
- Benefits include 100% paid employee health insurance and 90% dependent coverage; access to an employee fund providing eligible US employees exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds; AI tools and continuous AI skill-building; a flexible lifestyle spending wallet; employer-paid life and disability insurance; fertility and mental health benefits; company holidays, paid time off, sick time, and parental leave; and an office with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
- Base pay range for New York, NY (Zone 1): $230,000–$270,000 USD per year. The role is also eligible for bonus opportunities, equity, and benefits. Pay depends on job-related factors including education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. Compensation for locations not listed can be discussed with a recruiter.