Senior Web Performance Engineer: Real-Time Trading UI

Robinhood; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

100% paid health insurance for员工

Lifestyle wallet

Job summary

Robinhood is seeking a senior performance engineer for the Legend team in the United States. The role focuses on leading web performance across a high-end desktop trading platform, profiling, diagnosing, and shipping improvements to speed and efficiency.

You will work on real-time UI components handling streaming market data and collaborate across product, design, and backend teams. The role requires extensive experience with performance tooling, a track record of optimizing high-frequency

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building web applications with performance as a hard requirement.
• Experience building high-frequency, real-time UI rendering streaming data with canvas or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead web performance across Legend — profiling, diagnosing, and shipping measurable speed improvements.
• Build and optimize high-frequency, real-time UI components handling streaming data with minimal frame drops.
• Establish benchmarks and monitoring to create repeatable performance standards.

Skills

Web performance

Real-time UI

Canvas/WebGL

Web Workers

WebSockets

Performance tooling

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Chrome DevTools

Lighthouse

Flame charts

Core Web Vitals

Job description

Robinhood is seeking a senior performance engineer for the Legend team in the United States. The role focuses on leading web performance across a high-end desktop trading platform, profiling, diagnosing, and shipping improvements to speed and efficiency.

You will work on real-time UI components handling streaming market data and collaborate across product, design, and backend teams. The role requires extensive experience with performance tooling, a track record of optimizing high-frequency