Senior Software Developer, Backend

Join a leading fintech company that’s democratizing finance for all.

Robinhood was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.

As we continue to build...

We’re seeking curious, growth minded thinkers to help shape our vision, structures and systems; playing a key-role as we launch into our ambitious future. If you’re invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world — we’d love to have you apply.

About the role/team:

Robinhood Software Developers build and own backend services and infrastructure that power our core U.S. financial products. Developers supporting RH’s operations gain a unique look into how the U.S. financial systems work on the inside and strengthen their financial-domain knowledge. We strive for a high standard of engineering quality while solving unique scalability challenges.

We are only interested in candidates available for full-time roles.

What we expect you’ll do day-to-day:

• Set up and drive the technical direction of the project while mentoring and up-leveling junior developers.
• Supporting core backend for differing Robinhood products/systems.
• Design large-scale systems, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate and lead cross-functional projects.

About you:

You could be a great fit if you have some or all of the below.

• 5+ years of software engineering and development experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed services.
• Experience planning and leading large projects with long-term impact on multiple services and/or teams.
• Strong technical grasp and excellent judgment on project scoping and work prioritization.
• Able to tackle challenging software engineering and development problems in complex domains that deliver results.
• History of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering and development efficiency.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, databases, batch processing systems.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and extensive experience in good API design practices (gRPC and/or REST).
• Experience building one or more large-scale services.

Technologies used:

• Python/Java/Go/any object-oriented language
• SQL
• Message Queues
• Flink
• AWS

Click here to learn more about Robinhood’s Benefits.

We’re looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all. If you’re ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission—we’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Robinhood, we're looking for people invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

Robinhood embraces a diversity of backgrounds and experiences and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are dedicated to building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work (and work environment) will be for everyone. Additionally, Robinhood provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights. To review Robinhood's Privacy Policy please review the specific policy applicable to your region: Canada Applicant Privacy Policy / UK/EEA Applicant Privacy Policy / US Applicant Privacy Policy