About the company
Robinhood's mission is to democratize finance for all. The team is building an elite team applying frontier technologies to the world's biggest financial problems, focused on crypto, web3, and wallet offerings.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and operate resilient, highly scalable distributed systems and backend services across Robinhood Wallet, Tokenization, and Web3 platform infrastructure, with correctness, fault tolerance, and auditability as hard requirements
- Drive the architectural strategy and technical execution bridging traditional financial infrastructure (brokerage, ledgers, corporate actions) with on-chain systems, including smart contract integrations, chain indexers, and DEX trade flows
- Provide technical leadership on large-scope, ambiguous engineering initiatives, breaking down complex multi-quarter efforts into clear architectural milestones
- Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Security, and cross-functional leadership to define technical roadmaps and deliver high-impact solutions
- Champion engineering excellence by mentoring engineers, leading rigorous design and code reviews, and raising the bar for system reliability, observability, and operational rigor across teams
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems at scale
- Deep expertise in backend development using languages such as Go, Python, or Java, alongside advanced knowledge of cloud-native, event-driven architectures
- Strong mastery of system design, distributed data modeling, concurrency control, and scalability tradeoffs
- Deep care and architectural experience with correctness-critical systems—idempotency, financial reconciliation, ledger consistency, and designing for failure modes when money is at stake
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience—driving alignment across cross-functional partners, unblocking complex technical roadblocks, and mentoring other engineers
- Strong interest or hands-on experience with blockchain fundamentals—EVM, smart contracts, wallets, on-chain settlement, or decentralized infrastructure
Conditions
- Based in Menlo Park, CA and New York, NY offices, with hybrid attendance expected at least 3 days per week
- Eligible for bonus opportunities + equity + benefits
- Best in class benefits including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
- Lifestyle wallet, employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces