Senior Backend Engineer, Growth & Platform

Robinhood; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (100% for employees)

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Robinhood is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in Growth to own high-impact projects and strengthen backend foundations. You will collaborate with product, design, data, and peer engineering teams to build reliable services and scalable systems that drive acquisition, activation, and long-term engagement.

The role emphasizes ownership, architecture, and delivering durable backend capabilities that extend beyond any single project.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend systems in production.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models for reliability and scale.
• Experience leading medium-to-large technical projects with multiple stakeholders and clear business impact.
• Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving product environments and translate problems into pragmatic plans.
• Strong product sense and customer-experience focus.
• A high ownership mindset and ability to drive work from concept to production.
• Excellent collaboration and communication across engineering and partners.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve backend services and APIs powering Robinhood Gold and growth.
• Own projects end-to-end from design through launch, measurement, and iteration.
• Partner with product, design, data, and engineering teams to translate opportunities into scalable systems.
• Improve service reliability, performance, observability, and developer velocity of product-facing backends.
• Shape architecture and technical direction for subscription experiences and member benefits.
• Make tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability using data and judgment.
• Mentor engineers through design/code reviews and hands-on collaboration.
• Raise engineering standards in system design, execution, and ops.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

APIs

Data modeling

Lead projects

Ownership

Collaboration

Communication

Bachelor’s degree

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Robinhood is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in Growth to own high-impact projects and strengthen backend foundations. You will collaborate with product, design, data, and peer engineering teams to build reliable services and scalable systems that drive acquisition, activation, and long-term engagement.

The role emphasizes ownership, architecture, and delivering durable backend capabilities that extend beyond any single project.