Software Developer, Data Engineering

About the role

Join us in building the future of finance.

Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.

About the team + role

We’re thrilled to be expanding this year as Robinhood is hiring world-class engineering talent in Toronto. Our Hoodies in Canada will enable Robinhood to continue creating great financial products on our journey towards democratizing finance for all.

Robinhood is a metrics driven company and data is foundational to all key decisions from growth strategy to product optimization to our day-to-day operations. We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to build and maintain foundational datasets that will allow us to reliably and efficiently power decision making at Robinhood. These datasets include application events, database snapshots, and the derived datasets that describe and track Robinhood's key metrics across all products. You’ll partner closely with engineers, data scientists and business teams to power analytics, experimentation, and machine learning use cases. We are a fast-paced team in a fast growing company and this is a unique opportunity to help lay the foundation for reliable, impactful, data-driven decisions across the company for years to come.

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

- Help define and build key datasets across all Robinhood product areas. Lead the evolution of these datasets as use cases grow.

- Build scalable data pipelines using Python, Spark and Airflow to move data from different applications into our data lake.

- Partner with upstream engineering teams to enhance data generation patterns.

- Partner with data consumers across Robinhood to understand consumption patterns and design intuitive data models.

- Ideate and contribute to shared data engineering tooling and standards.

- Define and promote data engineering best practices across the company.

What you bring

- CS background or any other relevant fields of study.

- Strong product mindset

- 4+ years of experience and a Bachelors degree or 2+ years and a Masters degree

- Experience building high-quality data solutions

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

- Expertise building data pipelines using open source frameworks (Hadoop, Spark, etc)

- Expertise in one or more programming languages (ideally Python).

- Strong SQL (Presto, Spark SQL, etc) skills.

- Familiarity with data visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, etc).