Senior Backend Engineer – Growth & Platform Scale

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

Job summary

Robinhood is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for Growth in Menlo Park, CA. The role emphasizes owning end-to-end backend work, building scalable APIs, and guiding system architecture to support Growth and Robinhood Gold experiences.

You will collaborate across product, design, data, and engineering to deliver high-impact solutions, mentor peers, and drive operational excellence. A BS in CS or equivalent is required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with production backend systems.
• Strong proficiency in designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models.
• Experience leading medium-to-large technical projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving product environments.
• Strong product sense and customer-focused mindset.
• High ownership mindset and end-to-end execution capability.
• Excellent collaboration and cross-functional communication.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve backend services and APIs powering Growth experiences.
• Own projects end to end from technical design through launch and iteration.
• Partner with product, design, data, and engineering teams to translate opportunities into scalable systems.
• Improve service reliability, performance, observability, and developer velocity.
• Help shape architecture and technical direction for subscription and engagement flows.
• Use metrics to trade off speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Mentor engineers through reviews, debugging, and collaboration.
• Raise engineering standards in design, execution, and operations.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Data models

Mentoring

Cross-functional

Product sense

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Robinhood is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for Growth in Menlo Park, CA. The role emphasizes owning end-to-end backend work, building scalable APIs, and guiding system architecture to support Growth and Robinhood Gold experiences.

You will collaborate across product, design, data, and engineering to deliver high-impact solutions, mentor peers, and drive operational excellence. A BS in CS or equivalent is required.