About the team & role

Our Core Exchange team is responsible for all trading interfaces — including the Exchange REST API, FIX API, WebSockets, and market data services. The team’s mission is to deliver a best-in-class trading experience for API users, with a relentless focus on latency, reliability, and data correctness.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help scale our trading infrastructure to meet the evolving needs of our most sophisticated users. This is a high-impact role for engineers who love low-latency systems, deeply care about precision, and want to directly shape the tools used by active traders worldwide.

What you'll do

• Design and build performant, reliable, and scalable services for our API trading ecosystem.
• Optimize low-latency data flows and trading paths, ensuring correctness under pressure.
• Own and evolve core components of our REST, FIX, and WebSocket APIs.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and frontend teams to deliver seamless API solutions.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, supporting mission-critical systems used by our most active clients.
• Continuously measure, monitor, and improve the trading API experience.

What you bring

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Proven experience designing high-performance systems with low-latency and high-throughput requirements.
  Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS services.
• Solid database experience: SQL (MySQL) and/or NoSQL (DynamoDB).
• Experience working on or with production-grade trading APIs or high-volume systems.
• Structured thinker with strong communication skills and a customer-first mindset.

Nice to have

• You’ve built or operated your own automated trading bot or trading system.
• Hands-on experience with the FIX protocol and order management systems.
• Knowledge of WebSockets, streaming market data, or real-time API performance tuning.
• Passion for financial markets and an interest in building tools for professional traders.

About the Team + Role: 

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

Bitstamp made history in 2011 as the world’s first regulated crypto exchange. Today, we are entering an ambitious new chapter as part of the Robinhood family. The Cloud Engineering Team is at the heart of this transformation, owning the AWS foothold that enables our global expansion and ensures the world’s longest-running exchange remains unshakeable.

We are currently bridging the gap between our legacy monolith architecture and a modern, high-velocity ecosystem. This team doesn't just "run" the platform; we are the architects of its modernization, moving toward full containerization and fully automated operational responsibilities to deliver at "Robinhood speed."

As a Senior Backend Engineer integrated into the Cloud Engineering team, you will be a key driver of our modernization strategy. You aren't just writing features; you are rewriting the rules of how our core platform operates. You will take ownership of the code changes necessary to decompose our monolith into a containerized, scalable environment while ensuring seamless integration with Robinhood’s global systems.

This role is based in our Ljubljana office(s), with in-person attendance expected at least  3days per week. 

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams. 

Applications for this role will be accepted through April 27th, 2026.

Requires participation in an on-call rotation to support business needs.

What You’ll Do:

• Containerize the Core: Lead the effort to containerize our monolith application, making the critical code adjustments required to modernize our deployment and scaling workflows.
• Robinhood Ecosystem Integration: Manage and execute high-priority integration projects that align Bitstamp’s backend with Robinhood’s global infrastructure.
• Evolve the Stack: Identify and implement backend improvements that enhance platform performance and reduce operational toil through intelligent automation (with and without AI).
• End-to-End Ownership: Take full responsibility for complex projects from design to deployment, working independently with limited supervision and making meaningful decisions to improve system effectiveness.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate with teams across the organization to interpret complex technical requirements and influence processes that enhance our overall engineering velocity.
• Maintain Platform Integrity: Participate in the on-call rotation, applying your deep knowledge of the system to solve difficult problems and ensure 24/7 reliability.

What You Bring:

• Applied Expertise: 4–5+ years of relevant experience in backend engineering, with a strong background in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and modernizing legacy architectures.
• Technical Depth: Advanced knowledge of backend disciplines and practical experience with AWS services (ECS, EC2, Aurora, DynamoDB).
• Proven Autonomy: An experienced contributor who has managed entire projects or processes, coordinating across different job areas to solve difficult, multi-faceted problems.
• Operational Pragmatism: Someone who thrives on the challenge of taking a stable system and "paving the road" toward automation while balancing necessary day-to-day operational tasks.
• Collaboration & Influence: Strong communication skills to guide and coach other employees, and the ability to influence stakeholders outside of your immediate department to reach technical agreements.
• Project Mastery: Practical knowledge of project management and the ability to manage complex administrative and technical logistics within a fast-moving organization.

What we offer

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
• Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact and bonus programs
• Top tier benefits to fuel your work, including supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs
• Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more.
• Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and more!
• Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces. 
• Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs

About the team + role

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

The Bitstamp Cloud Engineering team is responsible for designing, maintaining, and scaling the AWS infrastructure that powers our global crypto exchange. As part of the Robinhood family, we are aligning our systems to support global expansion while maintaining the stability and reliability our institutional customers depend on. The team partners closely with Security, Data, Product Engineering, and Platform teams to ensure our infrastructure supports secure trading, high availability, and regulatory requirements. We value practical solutions, operational rigor, and steady progress toward automation and long-term scalability!

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be an established individual contributor responsible for the reliability, scalability, and modernization of our AWS environment. You will manage core compute and database infrastructure while contributing to projects that align Bitstamp’s systems with Robinhood’s broader platform architecture. This role balances hands-on operational support with forward-looking automation work, reducing manual effort and improving system resilience. Your work will directly support high-volume trading systems and ensure our platform performs consistently as we scale globally!

This role is based in our Ljubljana office(s), with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. 

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.

Applications for this role will be accepted through April 27th, 2026

Requires participation in an on-call rotation to support business needs.

What you’ll do

● You manage and troubleshoot AWS services including EC2, ECS, Aurora, and DynamoDB to ensure high availability and performance.
● You contribute to infrastructure projects that align Bitstamp systems with Robinhood’s global platform architecture and shared services.
● You identify manual operational processes and implement automation using infrastructure-as-code and workflow tooling.
● You monitor database and compute capacity, adjusting configurations to support platform growth and transaction volume.
● You participate in the on-call rotation, diagnosing and resolving production issues to maintain 24/7 system stability.

What you bring

● You have 2–3+ years of hands-on experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering within AWS environments.
● You have practical experience with EC2, ECS, and database technologies such as Aurora and DynamoDB.
● You use structured troubleshooting methods and data analysis to resolve moderately complex infrastructure issues.
● You are comfortable balancing operational responsibilities with incremental automation improvements.
● You communicate technical concepts clearly and collaborate effectively with engineering and platform teams.

What we offer

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
• Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact and bonus programs
• Top tier benefits to fuel your work, including supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs
• Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more.
• Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and more!
• Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces. 
• Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs

About the team + role

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are motivated to make a meaningful impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards!

The Core Exchange team is responsible for building and maintaining trading interfaces including REST APIs, FIX APIs, WebSockets, and market data services. The team focuses on delivering fast, reliable, and accurate trading experiences for API users. You will work closely with infrastructure, product, and frontend teams to ensure trading systems meet strict performance and reliability expectations while supporting a global user base.

As a Senior Software Engineer (IC5), you will design and scale systems that power trading infrastructure used by sophisticated clients. You will focus on improving latency, system reliability, and data accuracy across critical trading paths. This role involves working on core API components and optimizing performance under high-throughput conditions, while contributing to system design decisions that directly impact active traders worldwide!

This role is based in our Slovenia office, with in-person attendance expected at least 2 days per week.

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.

Applications for this role will be accepted through 6/1/2026.

Requires participation in an on-call rotation to support business needs.

What you’ll do

● Design and build reliable, scalable services that support API-based trading systems
● Improve latency and throughput across trading data flows while maintaining data accuracy
● Own and enhance core components of REST, FIX, and WebSocket APIs
● Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and frontend teams to deliver cohesive API solutions
● Monitor system performance and implement improvements based on measurable system behavior

What you bring

● You have 5+ years of backend engineering experience
● You have experience building high-performance systems with low-latency and high-throughput requirements
● You are familiar with cloud infrastructure, including AWS services
● You have experience working with SQL (e.g., MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB)
● You have experience working with production systems that handle high request volumes

What we offer

● Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
● Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, and equity ownership
● Top tier benefits to fuel your work, including supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs
● Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more
● Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and more!
● Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces
● Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs