3 days ago
Menlo Park, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$153k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve scalable backend systems with strong performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Design, implement, test, and release product-facing features with strict correctness and availability requirements.
- Partner with frontend and data engineers to define and refine APIs serving millions of customers.
- Lead technically complex projects from design through execution.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on technical guidance.
- Improve system performance, developer productivity, and operational risk.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience.
- At least 3 years of experience building low-latency, large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Experience designing and operating highly concurrent systems and well-structured REST APIs.
- Demonstrated ownership of large projects with sustained impact on a system or team.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to prioritize work against business and reliability goals.
- Ability to break down complex problems and deliver practical, high-quality solutions.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical direction on new initiatives.
- Position restricted to US citizens or lawful permanent residents.
Benefits
- Hybrid work based in Menlo Park, California or New York, New York, with at least 3 days per week in the office.
- Bonus opportunities, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
- 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
- Flexible lifestyle wallet for wellness, learning, and other expenses.
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
- Company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and other time off.
- Catered meals, office events, and comfortable workspaces.
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About Robinhood
Robinhood builds a mobile-first brokerage and cash management platform for retail investors to trade stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies, plus IRAs and a cash card. It makes money through interest on cash and margin, payment for order flow, crypto trading fees, and subscriptions like Robinhood Gold. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Robinhood Markets is a public company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker HOOD.