Software Backend Engineer, Robinhood
Credit Cards & Banking Infrastructure
$166-195k
+ 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
$166-195k
+ Bonus programs + Equity ownership
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize finance for all.
Role
Who you are
- A passion for building and operating production backend systems where correctness, security, and reliability are non-negotiable
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals and a track record of working effectively in service-oriented architectures at scale
- The ability to spot leverage: you use metrics, traces, and incident data to uncover root causes and drive meaningful improvements
- Clear, confident technical communication, and excellent cross-functional collaboration skills
- Sound engineering judgment and strong ownership—you can make smart trade-offs, execute with urgency, and raise the bar around you
- You are looking to do your best work somewhere where you’ll be surrounded, challenged, and inspired by people who run just as fast as you do
What the job involves
- The Money Infrastructure team builds the backbone of Robinhood’s Credit Card and Banking products
- We own the core infrastructure, reliability, scalability, observability, incident response, and developer experience that make money movement safe, correct, and fast at scale
- We also lead adoption of AI-powered engineering tooling that helps teams build faster, review better, monitor more intelligently, and operate with greater clarity
- Our mandate is simple: raise the technical ceiling of the organization and remove the friction that slows it down
- As a Software Backend Engineer, Credit Card & Banking Infrastructure, you’ll work on the high-leverage systems problems that matter most as the business grows
- You’ll design and build backend and platform capabilities that improve resiliency, simplify complexity, strengthen operational excellence, and accelerate engineering teams across the stack
- This is a strong fit for an engineer with range, ambition, and a high quality bar—someone who wants to learn quickly, take ownership early, and help shape the infrastructure behind products used at massive scale
- 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
- Build distributed systems, internal tooling and automation that make engineers faster and more effective, including AI-assisted workflows for diagnosis, testing, and operational analysis
- Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of core money movement and ledger-adjacent systems, including resilience under rapid traffic spikes
- Find and fix structural weaknesses in architecture and operations to reduce incidents, manual toil, and on-call burden
- Raise the bar on observability and operational excellence through better dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and incident follow-through
- Partner across Credit Card & Banking to shape technical designs, harden service boundaries, and deliver safe, high-quality launches
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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