Senior Web Engineer, Legend

About the team + role

The Robinhood Legend team builds and owns our advanced desktop trading platform, designed to meet the needs of active and sophisticated traders. The team works across real-time data infrastructure, advanced charting, options and futures trading tools, and highly customizable workspace experiences. Their mission is to deliver a professional-grade platform that combines the power of institutional trading tools with Robinhood's signature approachable design.

As a Senior Web Engineer, performance is your mandate. You'll set the standard for what a web-based trading platform can be — going deep on JavaScript internals, browser rendering pipelines, and real-time data optimization to make Legend the fastest, most responsive platform of its kind. For active traders, milliseconds matter, and you'll own the work that ensures Legend never gets in their way.

This is a performance-first role. You'll lead the initiatives that make Legend faster and more efficient, while also contributing to feature development across core trading surfaces where your performance expertise has the greatest impact. The work balances deep technical execution with meaningful cross-functional partnership.

This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA or New York, NY office(s), with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.

What you’ll do

• Lead web performance across Legend — profiling, diagnosing, and shipping measurable improvements to speed, responsiveness, and runtime efficiency platform-wide
• Go deep on JavaScript internals, browser rendering pipelines, and real-time data handling to deliver a best-in-class experience for active traders
• Build and optimize high-frequency, real-time UI components that handle streaming market data without compromising frame rate or user experience
• Establish performance benchmarks and  monitoring systems that create a repeatable, lasting standard for the team
• Drive a performance-first culture through code reviews, technical documentation, and engineering standards
• Contribute to end-to-end feature development across Legend's core trading surfaces, applying your performance expertise where it matters most
• Partner with product, design, and backend engineers to deliver polished, reliable experiences at scale
• Participate in roadmap planning and help scope technical work, balancing feature delivery with ongoing platform health
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What you bring

• 5+ years of experience in web development with a focus on infrastructure, tooling, or platform engineering.
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, and at least one other language.
• Experience working on or closely with frontend infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, or internal tools.
• Demonstrated ability to reduce developer friction and increase engineering productivity through technical solutions.
• Comfortable working in complex developer ecosystems with hundreds of developers as stakeholders (experience with Bazel or similar build tools is a plus).
• A mindset for building meta-level systems and tools that make other engineers more effective.

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

Our team is here to enable an inclusive and welcoming interview experience for all candidates. If you need additional assistance throughout the interview process related to a physical or mental condition, or if there is something our team can do to enable a more accessible experience at any time, please notify our team by completing this Applicant Accommodation Form.