Robinhood Senior Software Engineer at Robinhood builds and owns backend services and infrastructure for crypto, web3, and wallet offerings. The role focuses on scalable, correct, and auditable systems supporting decentralized finance.
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 the connective tissue between traditional market infrastructure (brokerage, ledgers, corporate actions) and on-chain systems, including smart contract integrations, chain indexers, and DEX trade flows.
Develop product-facing features and platform enhancements that meet 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 to deliver impactful technical solutions.
2+ years of experience in software development.
Expertise in backend development using languages such as Go, Python, or Java, with a 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 a 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 a strong appetite to go deep quickly.
