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Robinhood is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to design and build large-scale distributed systems that support real-time trading, balances, and platform capabilities. You will lead technically complex projects, contribute to architectural decisions, and collaborate with frontend and data partners to deliver well-structured APIs. Your work will directly influence system performance, operational safety, and long-term maintainability across core Robinhood products.
Key responsibilities include building and evolving scalable backend systems that balance performance, reliability, and maintainability; designing, implementing, testing, and releasing product-facing features with strict correctness and availability requirements; partnering with frontend and data engineers to define REST APIs serving millions of customers; leading large, technically complex projects from design through execution; mentoring junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on technical guidance; and identifying opportunities to improve system performance, developer productivity, and operational risk.
You bring 5+ years of professional software development experience, with 3+ years building low-latency, large-scale distributed systems in production environments. You have demonstrated expertise designing and operating highly concurrent systems and well-structured REST APIs, with proven ownership of large projects that sustained impact on systems or teams. Strong technical judgment, ability to prioritize work aligned with business and reliability goals, and capacity to break down complex problems and deliver practical, high-quality solutions are essential. Experience mentoring other engineers and contributing to technical direction on new initiatives is required.
Robinhood's engineering organization spans Crypto, Brokerage, and Core Engineering, each responsible for foundational systems supporting how customers invest and manage their money. These teams build and operate platforms for trading, custody, ledgers, reporting, payments, and shared infrastructure with strong focus on correctness, reliability, and customer trust. The role is based in Menlo Park, CA or New York, NY offices with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.
