Software Engineer, Robinhood
Cryptography
$166-195k
+ Bonus opportunities + equity
3+ days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
Be an early applicant
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$166-195k
+ Bonus opportunities + equity
3+ days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize finance for all.
Role
Who you are
- While prior cryptography or security experience is highly preferred, we are excited to empower strong engineers with a passion for security to learn and grow their skills on the job
- Experience building, operating, or supporting production services, distributed systems, or infrastructure
- Proficiency writing production code in at least one modern programming language (such as Python, Go, Java, C#, or C++) with a strong ability to reason about complex systems
- Comfort working across multiple technical domains, including software development, infrastructure, and operational reliability
- Clear and concise communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to explain technical decisions and proactively collaborate when facing challenges
- Curiosity and willingness to learn security engineering principles and participate in a light on-call rotation
Desirable
- Prior experience in site reliability engineering (SRE), platform engineering, or cloud security
- Familiarity with key management, secrets management, or core cryptographic concepts (such as symmetric encryption or public/private key pairs)
- Experience handling sensitive financial, payment, or card data in regulated environments
- Background in supporting internal customer migrations or driving platform adoption across engineering teams
What the job involves
- The Cryptographic Services & Infrastructure team secures and manages cryptographic keys and enables Robinhood engineering teams to safely leverage core capabilities like encryption and decryption
- Join a high-impact team responsible for protecting some of Robinhood's most sensitive financial and customer data! In this role, you will help build and operationalize Robinhood's new in-house card-processing service—a critical initiative that brings core capabilities in-house and offers meaningful ownership across software, infrastructure, security, and operations
- Design, build, and maintain production services and infrastructure supporting key management, encryption, and decryption functions
- Help architect, launch, and scale Robinhood’s new in-house card-processing environment to protect sensitive card, financial, and tax-related data
- Write clean, maintainable production code and build operational tooling across software, infrastructure, and security controls
- Collaborate with internal engineering teams to support migrations, drive adoption of shared cryptographic capabilities, and ensure safe system design
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to maintain high availability, security, and operational reliability as processing volume grows
Our take
For years, traditional brokers ruled the share trading realm, charging hefty fees that locked out everyday investors. Robinhood emerged as a disruptor, offering commission-free trading and opening the door to a new generation. Since then, expectations have continued to evolve, with investors looking not just to lower costs, but for simpler tools, clearer information, and guidance that makes the market easier to understand.
Robinhood was built to meet those changing expectations, designed from the start as a mobile-first platform that makes investor more accessible and less intimidating for people at every stage of their financial journey. Through its app, users can trade stocks and other financial instruments while benefiting from a clean interface and built-in educational support, helping them move from curiosity to confidence without unnecessary complexity.
Recently, Robinhood has strenghtned its impact too, particularly in the UK. With the launch of AI-powered Digests within its Robinhood Cortex assistant that helps users understand what's driving stock movements in plain English, while upcoming options trading and expanded educational resources add flexibility and depth. Together, these steps position Robinhood as a platform evolving alongside its users, blending technology and education to stay ahead in an ever-changing investment landscape.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2021
$2.4bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jan 2021
$1bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $5.6bn
Company HQ
Downtown Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Vlad Tenev
(Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman)Studied Mathematics at Stanford University, where they met Baiju. Dropped out of a PhD to start Robinhood. Alongside Robinhood, Vlad is also the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Harmonic.
Baiju B.
(Co-Founder)Studied Mathematics and Physics at Stanford University, where they met their Vlad and co-founded Robinhood in 2012. Baiju is also the Founder and CEO of Aetherflux.
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