Summary
What you’ll impact
The Lead Engineering Manager - Brokerage Infrastructure defines technical vision, leads modernization, and oversees the tier‑zero order processing and account management platform. The role ensures high‑throughput, low‑latency systems that handle millions of transactions per second remain reliable and scalable. Key duties include setting reliability KPIs, driving capacity planning, and executing architectural migrations to remove storage bottlenecks. They collaborate with infrastructure and product teams, mentor a group of engineers, and shape hiring and engineering culture.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Define the technical vision, lead modernization initiatives and set the reliability bar across Robinhood's most critical infrastructure.
- Manage a team of 10+ engineers at various levels, own cross-team stakeholder relationships, and drive the engineering excellence that keeps our systems running at scale!
- Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the platform, Robinhood's tier zero order processing and account management system
- Lead and develop a team of 10+ engineers at various levels, coaching and mentoring emerging leaders, setting a high technical bar, and fostering a culture of ownership and accountability
- Drive modernization initiatives including and resolving core storage bottlenecks
- Own reliability and uptime KPIs — including SLOs for subsecond order latency, high availability, capacity planning, and rapid incident recovery during high-volume trading events
- Collaborate across infrastructure and product teams to enforce reliability standards and align on technical direction
- Proactively identify scalability and reliability risks, champion preventative solutions, and coordinate fast, effective incident response
- Shape hiring, onboarding, and the engineering culture as the platform continues to scale
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of professional engineering experience, with several years at the staff level and prior Team Lead experience
- Deep expertise with tier zero or mission-critical systems at significant scale — you've contributed to or maintained systems operating at millions to tens of millions of QPS
- Demonstrated experience managing engineering teams of ~10+ engineers, including senior and staff-level ICs
- Experience leading architectural migrations or modernization efforts (e.g., language rewrites, traffic routing simplification, storage improvements)
- Strong ownership mentality: you question scalability assumptions, enforce rigorous engineering processes, and think through edge cases others miss
- Track record of maintaining system correctness and reliability in high-accountability production environments (financial order execution, account management, or similar)
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and align across infrastructure and product organizations