Engineering Manager, Equities

Robinhood Robinhood · Fintech · Menlo Park, CA · Brokerage Engineering

Engineering Manager for Robinhood's Equities team, focusing on building and operating high-performance, low-latency trading systems. The role involves leading a team, setting goals, guiding technical direction, and ensuring systems meet strict performance and regulatory standards in a financial trading environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of engineers to deliver reliable equities trading systems with clear uptime and latency targets
  2. Set quarterly goals and track progress using defined metrics such as system availability, order throughput, and incident response time
  3. Partner with product managers and business stakeholders to define requirements and deliver features on schedule
  4. Review system architecture and guide design decisions to improve scalability, fault tolerance, and performance
  5. Support hiring, onboarding, and development of engineers through regular feedback and structured growth plans

Skills

Required

  • Experience managing engineering teams that build and operate high-availability backend systems
  • Ability to define and track measurable goals such as service uptime, latency, and delivery timelines
  • Strong technical background in distributed systems, APIs, and data-intensive applications
  • Experience working on financial systems, trading platforms, or other regulated environments
  • Clear communication skills with the ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs

What the JD emphasized

  • high-availability backend systems
  • financial systems
  • trading platforms
  • regulated environments