Senior Cloud Backend Engineer — Low-Latency AWS/Kubernetes

Robinhood; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Robinhood is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Exchange Platform team in London. You will help build the next generation infrastructure for low-latency services in the cloud and drive modernization initiatives across the stack.

You will operate in a hybrid London office, with on-call rotations to support business needs, and collaborate across teams to ensure scalable, reliable services that power Robinhood's global ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 4–5+ years of cloud engineering experience with containerization and modernizing legacy architectures.
• Advanced knowledge of backend disciplines and AWS services (ECS, EC2, Aurora, DynamoDB).
• Proven ability to manage entire projects and coordinate across teams.
• Operational pragmatism with a drive to automate and reduce toil.
• Strong communication to influence stakeholders and guide colleagues.
• Experience with on-call rotations or 24/7 support responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Build high-availability, low-latency cloud infrastructure across our ecosystem.
• Lead the transition to modern, containerized environments and optimize deployment workflows.
• Integrate Bitstamp backend with Robinhood's global infrastructure.
• Improve backend performance and automate operational tasks.
• Own complex projects from design to deployment with independence.
• Collaborate across teams to accelerate engineering velocity.
• Participate in on-call rotations to maintain 24/7 platform reliability.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Autonomy

Cross-functional collaboration

On-call experience

Low-latency systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS ECS

AWS EC2

Aurora

DynamoDB

Job description

Robinhood is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Exchange Platform team in London. You will help build the next generation infrastructure for low-latency services in the cloud and drive modernization initiatives across the stack.

You will operate in a hybrid London office, with on-call rotations to support business needs, and collaborate across teams to ensure scalable, reliable services that power Robinhood's global ecosystem.