Android Engineer, Robinhood
$128-150k
+ Bonus Programs + Equity ownership
3 days a week in office
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
Be an early applicant
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$128-150k
+ Bonus Programs + Equity ownership
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize finance for all.
Role
Who you are
- You bring 0-3 years experience building Android applications using Kotlin or Java
- You have experience building UI using Android Views and/or Jetpack Compose
- You have experience integrating APIs and handling real-time or near real-time data
- You write clear, maintainable, and well-tested code
- You are comfortable debugging performance issues and improving application reliability
- You communicate effectively with engineers, product managers, and designers
What the job involves
- The Events Contracts Engineering team builds and maintains the systems that power reliable event-driven communication across Robinhood’s platform
- This team focuses on defining, validating, and evolving event contracts that enable services to interact predictably and at scale, ensuring consistency and reliability across critical financial systems!
- As an Android Engineer, you will design and develop mobile platform capabilities that integrate with event-driven systems, enabling seamless user experiences powered by real-time data
- You will collaborate closely with backend engineers, product managers, and designers to implement features, improve performance, and ensure correctness in how event data is surfaced within Android applications!
- Build and maintain Android features that consume and reflect event-driven data from backend systems
- Collaborate with backend engineers to define and integrate event contracts into mobile applications
- Improve app performance, reliability, and data consistency across user-facing features
- Write and maintain tests to ensure correctness of event handling and application behavior
- Contribute to code reviews and technical discussions to improve engineering quality
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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