Build iOS features for Robinhood's equities trading platform

Robinhood is hiring an iOS Engineer for its Equities team within Brokerage, building customer-facing iOS features across order management, trading workflows, market data, and account functionality. The role requires 3+ years of professional iOS engineering with production Swift experience and close collaboration with product, design, backend, compliance, and operations. This interview probes Swift/iOS architecture depth, mobile performance and reliability practices, and cross-functional delivery on brokerage-critical features.

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What this interview tests

Production Swift/iOS feature development and architecture decisions
Coordinating mobile work with backend, compliance, and ops teams
Testing, observability, and release process improvements on iOS
Scalable mobile architecture patterns across a codebase
Reliability mindset for trading/brokerage-critical features

Common question themes

Walk through a production iOS feature you built end-to-end, including architecture tradeoffs

Describe a time coordinating with backend/compliance/ops to ship a customer-facing feature

How have you improved testing, observability, or release processes on an iOS app?

How do you approach scalable architecture patterns in a large iOS codebase?

How do you handle code review and design review feedback?

How candidates describe it

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