Senior Backend Software Engineer (Web3)

Robinhood; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Robinhood is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to architect, build, and scale backend services and data systems for crypto, DeFi, and wallet offerings. You will lead technical direction across Robinhood Wallet, Tokenization, and Web3 platforms, ensuring correctness, fault tolerance, and high availability for real customer assets.

Join a team focused on decentralization, cross-chain trading, and scalable backend infrastructure with emphasis on architectural leadership and rigorous code reviews.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience in distributed systems.
• Strong system design and scalability skills.
• Hands-on blockchain knowledge (EVM, wallets, on-chain settlement) desirable.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and operate resilient, highly scalable distributed systems and backend services across Robinhood Wallet, Tokenization, and Web3 platform infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership to deliver a best-in-class trading experience for crypto and tokenized assets.
• Mentor engineers and drive robust design reviews, observability, and reliability across teams.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Distributed systems

Job description

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll architect, build, and scale the backend services, infrastructure, and data systems that support Robinhood’s next-generation crypto, web3, and wallet offerings
• You’ll provide technical leadership to deliver a best-in-class trading experience for cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets—including perpetual futures—to customers worldwide, solving complex distributed systems and correctness challenges in an environment where the systems you build move real customer assets continuously around the clock
• The Robinhood Wallet team’s mission is to democratize access to financial services worldwide by leveraging DeFi protocols and Robinhood Chain
• The team builds non-custodial consumer products, self-custody experiences, and seamless cross-chain trading capabilities
• The Tokenization team’s mission is to bring both public and private equity to be tradable 24/7 on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) across the Robinhood Chain
• Equity markets have been closed nights and weekends for a century; the team builds the connective tissue between traditional market infrastructure and on-chain systems—issuance, custody, and settlement to change that
• The Robinhood Chain team designs and scales the underlying decentralized infrastructure across Robinhood
• The team continuously improves Robinhood Chain to provide a best-in-class decentralized platform for trading real-world assets, builds specialized smart contracts, and provides infrastructure services for other Robinhood teams that rely on DeFi
• Architect, build, and operate resilient, highly scalable distributed systems and backend services across Robinhood Wallet, Tokenization, and Web3 platform infrastructure, with correctness, fault tolerance, and auditability as hard requirements
• Drive the architectural strategy and technical execution bridging traditional financial infrastructure (brokerage, ledgers, corporate actions) with on-chain systems, including smart contract integrations, chain indexers, and DEX trade flows
• Provide technical leadership on large-scope, ambiguous engineering initiatives, breaking down complex multi-quarter efforts into clear architectural milestones
• Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Security, and cross‑functional leadership to define technical roadmaps and deliver high‑impact solutions
• Champion engineering excellence by mentoring engineers, leading rigorous design and code reviews, and raising the bar for system reliability, observability, and operational rigor across teams

Deep expertise in backend development using languages such as Go, Python, or Java, alongside advanced knowledge of cloud-native, event-driven architecturesDemonstrated technical leadership experience—driving alignment across cross-functional partners, unblocking complex technical roadblocks, and mentoring other engineers5+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems at scaleStrong mastery of system design, distributed data modeling, concurrency control, and scalability tradeoffsDeep care and architectural experience with correctness-critical systems—idempotency, financial reconciliation, ledger consistency, and designing for failure modes when money is at stakeStrong interest or hands‑on experience with blockchain fundamentals—EVM, smart contracts, wallets, on‑chain settlement, or decentralized infrastructure—and an appetite to tackle cutting‑edge technical problems