Senior Software Engineer - Experimentation Platform
Company: Robinhood
Location: Seattle
Posted on: May 2, 2024
Job Description:
About the team + role
Robinhood has an expansive experimentation platform, Kaizen, and
SerVars, our Dynamic Configuration platform. We are looking for a
Team Lead to help us grow from our current walk stage of the
offerings to aspirational leap/fly stages. If you are passionate
and have built experimentation platforms at scale, and believe that
experimentation is pivotal to significant product growth, we would
love to talk to you about the team!
Using these services, Robinhood is able to run significant
experiments to identify new and novel ways to continue to
democratize finance! These services are widely used across the
company and reach up to 300K TPS! We build the service in modern
Python, Go, React and work very closely with multi-functional
partners to ship features daily. It's an exciting team where you
work closely with your customers, using feedback to continuously
iterate on a significant product.
The role is located in the office location(s) listed on this job
description which will align with our in-office working
environment. Please connect with your recruiter for more
information regarding our in-office philosophy and
expectations.
What you'll do
- Build and own core features of some of Robinhood's most heavily
trafficked services!
- Craft large scale systems within a team, making the right
tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability
- Work with multi-functional teams to understand their needs and
build systems that help us reach company wide goals to improve
bottom line metrics such as revenue, customer satisfaction and
operational efficiency
- Mentor both formally and informally engineers and data
scientists at Robinhood, define and formalize the architecture
design process and guide the overall architectural
direction
- Be a champion for engineering excellence, improve operational
efficiency of the team and drive these initiatives across the
organization
What you bring
- 5+ years experience and are a proven senior engineer with
experience planning and leading large projects with long-term
impact on a single system or team.
- A big bonus: consistent track record of working closely with
data scientists, understanding their needs, and translating
sophisticated data science models into production-level code. You
can effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical
partners and collaborate across teams to achieve shared
objectives.
- Solid understanding of the scientific principles behind
experimentation, including but not limited to A/B testing,
hypothesis testing, and statistical analysis. You are adept at
implementing and interpreting experiments designed by data
scientists to guide product development and decision-making
processes.
- Experience working with Bazel, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka,
Postgres, Airflow and Presto.
- Passion for mentoring junior engineers and improving the
engineering craftsmanship, while also providing guidance and
mentorship to senior engineers to foster continuous growth and
excellence in the team.
What we offer
- Market competitive and pay equity-focused compensation
structure
- 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for
dependents
- Annual lifestyle wallet for personal wellness, learning and
development, and more!
- Lifetime maximum benefit for family forming and fertility
benefits
- Dedicated mental health support for employees and eligible
dependents
- Generous time away including company holidays, paid time off,
sick time, parental leave, and more!
- Lively office environment with catered meals, fully stocked
kitchens, and geo-specific commuter benefits
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