Robinhood

Senior Software Engineer, Prime

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7 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and end-to-end delivery of full-stack features across Prime backend services, frontend applications, and backoffice tooling.
  • Own institutional lifecycle journeys including onboarding, account configuration, reporting, and operations workflows.
  • Design for failure by documenting failure states, invariants, constraints, tests, alerts, and recovery paths.
  • Operate production systems and own features across the full institutional lifecycle.
  • Provide design-focused code reviews, mentor engineers, and help raise the team’s technical standards.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to support business needs.

Requirements

  • Independently deliver complex, high-ambiguity projects with long-term impact and own production code end to end.
  • Have strong production full-stack experience with a modern backend, primarily Python/Django and Go, and a component-based frontend using Vue.
  • Have hands-on experience building financial systems such as user balances, ledgers, risk engines, settlement, onboarding/KYC, or payments.
  • Demonstrate strong design judgment around failure paths, invariants, constraints, tests, and alerts.
  • Communicate effectively across teams and stakeholders and provide substantive design-level feedback while mentoring engineers.

Benefits

  • Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs and equity ownership.
  • Employer-paid private medical insurance, dependent coverage, and mental health and wellbeing support.
  • Aviva Pension Scheme with competitive company matching.
  • Employer-paid Lifestyle Wallet for wellness, learning, childcare, and other expenses.
  • Access to AI tools and ongoing AI skill-building opportunities.
  • Generous paid time off, company holidays, sick time, parental leave, and paid volunteer time off.
  • Catered meals, stocked snacks, team social events, and modern London office workspaces.
  • London-based role with in-person attendance expected at least three days per week.

Tech Stack

DjangoGoPythonVue.js

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About Robinhood

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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