Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the Team + Role

Robinhood’s engineering organization spans Crypto, Brokerage, and Core Engineering, building and operating platforms for trading, custody, ledgers, reporting, payments, and shared infrastructure.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, you will 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.

This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA and New York, NY offices, with hybrid attendance expected at least 3 days per week.

What You’ll Do

• Build and evolve scalable backend systems, balancing performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Design, implement, test, and release product-facing features with strict correctness and availability requirements.
• Partner with frontend and data engineers to define and refine REST APIs that serve millions of customers.
• Lead large, technically complex projects from design through execution.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on technical guidance.
• Identify opportunities to improve system performance, developer productivity, and operational risk.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of experience building low-latency, large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
• Experience designing and operating highly concurrent systems and well-structured REST APIs.
• Demonstrated ownership of large projects with sustained impact on a system or team.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to prioritize work aligned with business and reliability goals.
• Ability to break down complex problems and deliver practical, high-quality solutions.
• Experience mentoring other engineers and contributing to technical direction on new initiatives.