Senior Software Engineer, Wallet

Robinhood Robinhood · Fintech · Menlo Park, CA +1 · Crypto Engineering

Senior Software Engineer role at Robinhood focused on building backend services, infrastructure, and data systems for the Robinhood Wallet team. The role involves developing secure and reliable solutions for cryptocurrency and tokenized stock trading, designing scalable architectures, and mentoring other engineers. It requires expertise in backend development, cloud-native architectures, and system design, with a focus on traditional finance and web3 intersection.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, test, and deploy scalable backend services that power Robinhood Wallet.
  2. Develop product-facing features and platform enhancements that meet strict correctness and scalability standards.
  3. Identify and implement improvements to system performance, engineering productivity, and risk reduction.
  4. Collaborate closely with client teams, product managers, designers, and external vendors to deliver reliable technical solutions.
  5. Mentor other engineers and raise the technical standards of the team through design reviews, architecture discussions, and hands-on leadership.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in software development
  • Expertise in backend development using languages such as Go, Python, or Java
  • deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures
  • Strong grasp of system design, data modeling, and software engineering fundamentals
  • Proven ability to simplify complex problems, make sound tradeoffs, and drive alignment across product, engineering, and design teams.
  • Strong sense of personal accountability with a track record of delivering high-quality, end-to-end products and raising team-wide technical standards.

Nice to have

  • Experience working for a DeFi protocol, a crypto wallet company, or another blockchain-related company.
  • Familiarity with technologies like EVM blockchains and smart contracts.

What the JD emphasized

  • building the future of finance
  • democratize finance
  • applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems
  • building an elite team
  • high-performing, fast-moving team
  • democratize access to financial services worldwide
  • leveraging DeFi protocols and Robinhood Chain
  • intersection of traditional finance and web3
  • driving progress in cryptocurrency and blockchain applications
  • highly reliable, high-performance systems
  • shared learning, high technical standards, and respectful collaboration
  • build and own the backend services, infrastructure, and data systems
  • develop reliable and secure solutions
  • high-quality trading experience for cryptocurrencies and tokenized stocks
  • design scalable architectures
  • maintaining high-quality codebases
  • collaborate closely with client engineers, security professionals, and external node providers
  • deliver high-quality, secure technical integrations
  • mentor other engineers
  • raise our overall engineering standards
  • design reviews, architecture discussions, and hands-on technical leadership
  • build, test, and deploy scalable backend services
  • develop product-facing features and platform enhancements
  • meet strict correctness and scalability standards
  • identify and implement improvements to system performance, engineering productivity, and risk reduction
  • collaborate closely with client teams, product managers, designers, and external vendors
  • deliver reliable technical solutions
  • mentor other engineers and raise the technical standards of the team
  • 5+ years of experience in software development
  • Expertise in backend development using languages such as Go, Python, or Java
  • deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures
  • Strong grasp of system design, data modeling, and software engineering fundamentals
  • Proven ability to simplify complex problems, make sound tradeoffs, and drive alignment
  • Strong sense of personal accountability
  • track record of delivering high-quality, end-to-end products
  • Experience working for a DeFi protocol, a crypto wallet company, or another blockchain-related company
  • Familiarity with technologies like EVM blockchains and smart contracts