Staff Security Software Developer - Identity and Cryptography

Join a leading fintech company that’s democratizing finance for all.

Robinhood Markets was founded on a simple idea : that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood and its subsidiaries and affiliates are lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information.

Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.

With growth as the top priority...

The business is seeking curious, growth-minded thinkers to help shape our vision, structures and systems; playing a key-role as we launch into our ambitious future.

If you’re invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world we’d love to have you apply.

About the team + role :

The Robinhood Security Cryptography and IAM Platform team provides cryptographic services and libraries that power Robinhood’s infrastructure key management and data encryption.

Additionally this team creates engineering solutions and advisory services for Workforce IAM enablement across Robinhood’s custom systems and services.

We are focused on improving developer user experience for our cryptographic tools as well as developing paved paths for cryptographic as well as authentication paved paths across Robinhood organization.

What you’ll do :

• Design large-scale systems within the team, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability
• Develop technical solutions with high engineering rigor.
• Improve system performance, scalability, devX and security, reducing privacy and safety risks.
• Collaborate and align across a multitude of engineering teams in delivering large-scope technical quality projects.
• Mentor more junior engineers and raise the bar of the team
• Parter with your manager to improve team’s performance and help build out and maintain a high functioning engineering team

What you bring :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of experience working in Software Engineering space, with a passion to security
• Strong architecture and design skills
• Desire to mentor and coach
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to see the big picture
• Experience building out solutions to deliver both short term wins with an eye on the long term goals
• Must have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.

Technologies Used

• Proficient in Go or Python. Strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills.
• Expertise with cloud native platforms, and container and orchestration technologies. (e.g. AWS, Kubernates, gRPC, Kalfa)
• We would love to see you have experience working with authentication and authorization protocols / frameworks (OpenID Connect, OAuth, etc.

but will not require it

• We would love to see you have experience working with key management systems or data encryption but will not require it
• Strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software lifecycle.

Our team is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming interview experience for all candidates. If you require a specific accommodation during the application or interview process due to a physical or mental condition, please complete this to notify our team.

The form should only be completed if you need a specific accommodation.

Click to learn more about available Benefits, which vary by region and Robinhood entity.

We’re looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all.

If you’re ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission we’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting.

At Robinhood, we're looking for people invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

Robinhood embraces a diversity of backgrounds and experiences and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees.

We are dedicated to building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work (and work environment) will be for everyone.

Additionally, Robinhood provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights.

Please review the specific applicable to the country where you are applying.