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About the Role
Robinhood is building an elite team to apply frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. This role is foundational to a 0-to-1 initiative, shaping a platform built to serve millions of future customers by designing and building critical backend architecture, pipelines, and integrations for a historic national initiative.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, architectural strategy, and implementation of a brand-new, standalone backend infrastructure optimized for security, reliability, and scale.
- Design secure data pipelines and robust APIs to integrate government-backed registries, employer contribution frameworks, and institutional banking systems.
- Guide engineering teams across Robinhood's broader brokerage ecosystem, fostering technical excellence, setting high bar code standards, and mentoring senior engineers.
- Partner closely with Product, Security, Legal, and external stakeholders to navigate the unique protections and technical compliance protocols of a highly regulated government contract.
- Own backend stability and performance tuning ahead of initial high-volume user rollouts and the general public launch.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of operating as a principal or staff-level engineer, driving multi-year technical vision, long-term architecture, and strategic direction for large-scale distributed systems.
- Advanced mastery-level proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed infrastructure and secure data pipelines using Python or Go.
- Deep expertise in domain modeling, microservices architecture, and building highly reliable APIs capable of orchestrating complex cross-functional data flows across multiple engineering domains.
- Demonstrable execution in a zero-to-one product space, navigating high levels of technical ambiguity, setting foundational engineering patterns, and systematically de-risking complex technical blockers.
- Experience serving as a primary technical point of contact across an entire organization, with a strong commitment to raising the engineering bar by sponsoring and mentoring senior engineers.
- Exceptional communication skills with a proven capability to partner closely with Product, Security, Compliance, and external institutional partners to translate highly complex legal or regulatory constraints into clean, maintainable backend infrastructure.
- US citizens or lawful permanent residents
Skills
- Python
- Go
- Domain modeling
- Microservices architecture
- API design
- Distributed systems
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Staff
- Principal
Salary/Compensations
- $230,000—$270,000 USD (Zone 1)
- $203,000—$238,000 USD (Zone 2)
- $180,000—$211,000 USD (Zone 3)
Benefits
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact
- Bonus programs
- Equity ownership
- 401(k) matching
- 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
- Lifestyle wallet
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance
- Fertility benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Company holidays
- Paid time off
- Sick time
- Parental leave
- Catered meals
- Events
- Comfortable workspaces
About the Company
- Robinhood's mission is to democratize finance for all.
- Robinhood has been tapped as the brokerage and initial trustee for Trump Accounts, and is working alongside BNY and The U.S. Department of Treasury to develop and operate the program, which aims to expand market access for the next generation of Americans.
- The Government Products team focuses on building and scaling systems that support long-term investing and account management for millions of customers.
- Robinhood uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our recruiting process.
Equal Opportunity
- Robinhood provides equal opportunity for all applicants, offers reasonable accommodations upon request, and complies with applicable equal employment and privacy laws.
- Inclusion is built into how we hire and work—welcoming different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences so everyone can do their best.