Senior Staff Software Developer

Robinhood

full-time

Posted on: 9/26/2025

Location Type: Office

Location: Toronto • 🇨🇦 Canada

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💰 CA$213,000 - CA$250,000 per year

Senior

AWSCloudGRPCKubernetes

About the role

Serve as the senior-most individual contributor for the Software Platform organization in Toronto, acting as a technical leader across all five SP teams
Lead architecture, strategy, and technical direction across SP teams, driving end-to-end system design and alignment
Build scalable, reliable infrastructure systems
Collaborate with engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to solve technical challenges and define best practices
Act as a mentor and technical leader, sharing expertise and fostering growth across teams
Own roadmapping and delivery of critical platform initiatives, including service mesh implementation and infrastructure modernization
Increase developer velocity and ensure system reliability at scale by delivering robust, scalable, and secure systems

10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in a Staff or Senior Staff role
Proven track record in technical leadership, system design, and architecture at scale
Proven track record of leading cross-functional engineering initiatives and shipping platform-wide improvements
Experience with cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes, AWS, gRPC, and related tools
Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and align diverse technical stakeholders
Hands-on experience with observability, compute, storage, and provisioning platforms; prior experience in infrastructure or platform engineering preferred

Benefits

Eligible for bonus opportunities + equity + benefits
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Robinhood provides equal opportunity for all applicants
Offers reasonable accommodations upon request
Applicant Accommodation Form available for interview accommodations

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software engineeringsystem designarchitecturecloud-native technologiesKubernetesAWSgRPCinfrastructure engineeringobservabilityprovisioning

technical leadershipcommunicationmentorshipcollaborationinfluencealignmentproblem-solvingfostering growthcross-functional teamworkstrategic thinking