Software Developer, Crypto Trading
Robinhood
Estimated Salary: $60K-$100K
Location: ON Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About the role
Join the Crypto Pro Trading team and help us build the world's leading crypto trading platform to democratize crypto for all. As a Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain backend features and tools that are essential for our professional crypto traders and will directly impact our products, platforms, and operations in the US and EU. Your work will accelerate our growth and have a powerful impact on our trading services and offerings.
Your day-to-day will involve
Build scalable systems and components, making the right tradeoffs to account for stability and long-term maintainability.
Design, write, test, and release product-facing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements.
Collaborate with our frontend and data teams to fine tune our REST APIs supporting millions of customers.
Mentor junior developers on the team and lead project of large complexity
Identify opportunities to improve system performance, team productivity and reduce risk
About you
3+ years experience writing low latency, large scale distributed systems
Familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems and good intuition for REST API design
Proven experience working on large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team
Strong technical grasp with excellent judgment on task prioritizations
Ability to solve complex engineering problems that deliver results aligned with team objectives
Ability to mentor junior developers and lead the team technically on new initiatives and system improvements
Bonus points
Experience with trading and/or crypto software
Technologies we use
Python/Django, Go as the main languages and frameworks of choice
PostgreSQL as our primary data store, DynamoDB as a second store
Redis and Memcached as our caching layer
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