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RobinhoodSoftware Engineer, Backend
This full-time, on-site backend engineering role at Robinhood supports the Core Financial Products Engineering group. The engineer designs, builds, tests and releases backend systems that need…
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This full-time, on-site backend engineering role at Robinhood supports the Core Financial Products Engineering group. The engineer designs, builds, tests and releases backend systems that need high accuracy, reliability and scale, and owns key services that power financial offerings while partnering with colleagues in product, design and data. The job also involves integrating with outside financial partners and shaping engineering practices. It suits an engineer with six months to two…
Job Description
This full-time, on-site backend engineering role at Robinhood supports the Core Financial Products Engineering group. The engineer designs, builds, tests and releases backend systems that need high accuracy, reliability and scale, and owns key services that power financial offerings while partnering with colleagues in product, design and data.
The job also involves integrating with outside financial partners and shaping engineering practices. It suits an engineer with six months to two years of hands-on experience, skill in Python with Django or Go, a solid grasp of relational data and safe transaction handling, and curiosity about financial systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test and ship backend systems where accuracy and uptime matter
- Own and maintain core services behind the company's financial products
- Work with cross-team partners to solve hard engineering and business problems
- Build links with outside financial partners to extend what the platform can do
Requirements
- Between six months and two years of practical software engineering background
- Skill with Python and Django, or with Go and similar backend tools
- Dependable grasp of relational data stores and safe transaction handling
- Solid CS foundations paired with analytical problem solving
Qualifications
- Curiosity about financial systems or a willingness to learn them
Core Skills
Benefits
- Performance-based pay with bonus programs, equity and 401(k) matching
- Fully paid health coverage for employees, plus dependent coverage at 90%
- Lifestyle wallet for wellness and learning, plus life and disability insurance
- Generous leave options including holidays, vacation, sick days and parental leave
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Where is the role based and how often is in-person work expected?
The posting places the role in its Menlo Park, CA or New York, NY offices and expects in-person presence at least three days weekly.
What is the pay range?
Base pay ranges by compensation zone run from $100,000 to $150,000 USD, with bonus and equity also possible.
What experience is the listing looking for?
Candidates should have roughly six months to two years of practical engineering work behind them.
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