About the team + role

Robinhood has an expansive experimentation platform, Kaizen, and SerVars, our Dynamic Configuration platform. We are looking for a Software Developer 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.

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
• Be a champion for engineering excellence, improve operational efficiency of the team and drive these initiatives across the organization

What you bring

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• You have experience and knowledge on building large scale distributed systems & infrastructure.
• Experience working with Bazel, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Postgres, Airflow and Presto.
• Bonus Points: Experience working with data scientists and translating sophisticated data science models into production-level code.
• Bonus Points: Experience with A/B testing, hypothesis testing, and satistical analysis. 

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