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Salary: CAD 136,000 - 160,000 / annual
Robinhood is seeking a Software Engineer to build and own backend services, infrastructure, and data systems supporting next-generation crypto, web3, and wallet offerings. You will develop innovative solutions for best-in-class trading experiences for cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets, including perpetual futures, while solving complex scalability and correctness challenges in systems that move real customer assets continuously.
The role spans three interconnected teams:
**Robinhood Wallet Team**: Builds non-custodial consumer products and self-custody experiences, leveraging DeFi protocols and Robinhood Chain to democratize access to financial services worldwide.
**Tokenization Team**: Brings public and private equity to decentralized exchanges (DEXs) on Robinhood Chain, enabling 24/7 trading. You'll build connective tissue between traditional market infrastructure (issuance, custody, settlement) and on-chain systems.
**Robinhood Chain Team**: Designs and scales underlying decentralized infrastructure, improves the platform for trading real-world assets, builds specialized smart contracts, and provides infrastructure services for other teams.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Design, build, test, and deploy scalable backend services and infrastructure across Robinhood Wallet, Tokenization, and Web3 platform systems with correctness and auditability as hard requirements
- Build connective tissue between traditional market infrastructure and on-chain systems, including smart contract integrations, chain indexers, and DEX trade flows
- Develop product-facing features and platform enhancements meeting strict correctness and scalability standards
- Identify and implement improvements to system performance, engineering productivity, and risk reduction
- Collaborate closely with product, compliance, client, platform teams, and external partners
The role is based in Toronto with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. Robinhood emphasizes in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community.
**Requirements**:
- 2+ years of experience in software development
- Expertise in backend development using Go, Python, or Java, with solid grasp of cloud-native architectures
- Strong grasp of system design, data modeling, and software engineering fundamentals
- Care for correctness-critical systems—idempotency, reconciliation, and reasoning carefully about failure modes when money is at stake
- Strong ownership mindset with track record of delivering high-quality projects end-to-end in cross-functional environments and raising team-wide technical standards
- Proven ability to simplify complex problems, make sound tradeoffs, and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders
- Interest in blockchain fundamentals (EVM, smart contracts, wallets, on-chain settlement) or strong appetite to go deep quickly
