Senior Backend Engineer, Growth
Robinhood helps users invest in stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies through commission-free trading with no minimum account requirements.
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About Robinhood
Robinhood helps retail investors access financial markets through commission-free trading of stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies. With it, users can invest with no account minimums, earn rewards through retirement accounts with matching contributions, and access advanced trading tools. Robinhood democratizes investing by making financial markets accessible to everyone, not just wealthy investors.
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About the Role
You will design, build and evolve backend services and APIs that power Robinhood Gold experiences and growth journeys. You will own projects from technical design through launch, measurement and iteration, partnering with product, design, data and engineering teams. You will improve reliability, performance and observability, help shape architecture, make thoughtful tradeoffs using metrics, and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems
- Strong proficiency designing distributed systems, APIs and data models
- Experience leading medium-to-large technical projects with multiple stakeholders
- Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving product environments
- Strong product sense
- High ownership mindset
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Design, build and evolve backend services and APIs for Robinhood Gold and growth journeys
- Own projects end to end from technical design through launch, measurement and iteration
- Partner with product, design, data and engineering teams to turn ambiguous opportunities into scalable systems
- Improve service reliability, performance, observability and developer velocity
- Help shape architecture and technical direction for subscription, member benefits and engagement systems
- Make tradeoffs between speed, quality and maintainability using metrics
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews and debugging
- Raise the engineering bar in system design, execution and operational excellence
Benefits
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers
- Bonus programs
- Equity ownership
- 401(k) matching
- 100% paid health insurance for employees and 90% coverage for dependents
- Lifestyle wallet benefits spending account
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- Fertility benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Company holidays, paid time off, sick time and parental leave
- Office catered meals, events and comfortable workspaces