Staff Software Engineer, Backend

About the team + role
We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

This role is based in our New York office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.

What you’ll do

• Own the technical vision and execution for a highly visible, mission-critical area of Robinhood’s trading experience, including the app’s front page
• Design and evolve high-performance, low-latency systems that support real-time trading, market data, and discovery for millions of daily users
• Remain deeply hands-on, writing production code, leading complex implementations, and setting the standard for engineering quality across the platform
• Lead the integration of AI-driven capabilities into core trading, portfolio, and discovery workflows
• Balance trading depth with usability, ensuring sophisticated functionality remains fast, intuitive, and accessible
• Drive technical excellence across reliability, correctness, observability, and security in a highly regulated environment
• Partner closely with Product and Design to shape the roadmap for one of the highest-traffic surfaces in the company
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, architecture discussions, and hands-on leadership
• Influence platform direction beyond your immediate team, aligning with adjacent orgs and company-wide initiatives

What you bring

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, distributed systems in production environments
• Expertise in backend development using languages such as Go, Python, or Java, with deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures
• 3+ years leading large-scale technical initiatives, with ownership spanning multiple teams or complex systems
• Strong grasp of system design, data modeling, and software engineering fundamentals
• Proven ability to simplify complex problems, make sound tradeoffs, and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders
• Strong ownership mindset with a track record of delivering high-impact, end-to-end product outcomes and raising team-wide technical standards
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and developing engineers, fostering technical excellence and long-term career growth

What we offer

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
• Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
• Best in class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
• Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more
• Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
• Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
• Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.