Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform (Fintech)

Location: Bellevue, WA, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week

Salary: $264,000–$310,000 USD base pay per year, plus bonus opportunities, equity, and benefits

Company

Robinhood is a fintech company building products and infrastructure to democratize finance and serve millions of users.

What you will do

• Lead architectural direction across storage, streaming, and data lake platforms supporting transactional, real-time, and analytical workloads.
• Design and guide distributed systems, including database sharding, proxy-based query routing, and real-time event processing pipelines.
• Improve data freshness and latency by evolving streaming and ingestion systems toward near-real-time processing.
• Partner with engineering leaders across the organization to define platform strategy, align roadmaps, and meet reliability, scalability, and performance requirements.
• Drive 0→1 initiatives introducing new streaming, CDC, and data processing capabilities.

Requirements

• Extensive experience building and scaling distributed systems, with deep expertise in at least two of storage systems, streaming platforms, or data lakes and large-scale data processing.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and/or DynamoDB, including replication, sharding, and performance optimization.
• Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures using Kafka, Flink, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with Spark, Delta Lake, or equivalent large-scale data processing systems.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, define long-term architecture, and collaborate across multiple teams.
• Availability for regular in-person work in Bellevue, WA, at least three days per week.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact work focused on critical financial infrastructure.
• Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• 100% paid health insurance for employees and 90% coverage for dependents.
• Flexible lifestyle wallet for wellness, learning, and other expenses.
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
• Paid time off, company holidays, sick time, parental leave, catered meals, events, and supported office spaces.