Director of Engineering, Brokerage Platform

Menlo Park · New York, NY · Toronto · USD 294,000-345,000 · 6+ years experience · Posted Oct 7, 2026

At a glance

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 powering equities, options, event contracts, and crypto transactions.

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, including modernization, reliability, and scalability bets.
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, representing Brokerage Platform's roadmap, dependencies, and capabilities.
Champion platform modernization and technical debt reduction such as stack rewrites, sharding, multi-region scaling, and infrastructure abstractions.

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 owning and driving the technical direction of foundational backend platforms at scale.
A track record of driving platform modernization bets that delivered real business outcomes.
Comfort operating in a high-severity, always-on engineering environment having led teams through major incidents.
Strong background with distributed systems, backend services at scale, Go or Python, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).

Experience at the intersection of financial services, trading, brokerage, or adjacent high-criticality domains with depth in one or two sub-domains like market data, clearing, order execution, or brokerage infrastructure.
Background from high-performance engineering organizations in fintech, trading, crypto, or large-scale consumer platforms similar to Robinhood, Coinbase, SoFi, Google, or similar environments.

Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
Top Tier benefits including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund for eligible US employees to invest in a private employee fund.
Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee.
Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more.
Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.