Software Engineer

Robinhood; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

Bonus programs

Lifestyle wallet

Job summary

Robinhood in Menlo Park, CA is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Build team, turning AI prototypes into production-grade services. You will work closely with Finance, HR, Legal, and Compliance, shaping end-to-end solutions that meet enterprise standards including SSO, auditing, CI/CD, and security reviews.

The role emphasizes AI-native engineering, scalable patterns, and collaboration with business partners in a fast-moving, regulated industry.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building and running production backend or full-stack systems.
• Hands-on cloud depth with containerized services, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code, serverless stack preferred.
• Demonstrated AI-native development: experience with agentic tools and LLM-powered apps.

Responsibilities

• Assess prototypes and decide harden, rebuild, or redirect, owning the outcome end-to-end.
• Design, build, and ship services on enterprise platforms with full security standards.
• Develop AI-native workflows: drive agents, test scaffolding, and production artifacts.
• Collaborate with Finance, HR, Legal, Compliance to translate workflows into software.
• Deliver handoffs with runbooks, evals, and dashboards.
• Establish platform patterns to scale repeated solutions.
• Maintain high engineering quality with rigorous review of AI-generated code.

Skills

Backend systems

Cloud (GCP)

AI-native development

Communication with non-engineers

Fintech experience

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Serverless architecture

LLM tooling

Job description

Join us in building the future of finance.

Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.

About the team + role

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

Robinhood is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Build team: the small, high-leverage team that turns the company's best AI-built prototypes into true enterprise-grade services. Robinhood has gone all-in on an AI-accelerated workforce: every week, Hoodies across Finance, HR, Legal, Compliance, and beyond use sanctioned AI tools to build working prototypes of the tools they wish they had. The best of those ideas deserve to become real software. That is this team's entire job, and yours.

The team is built on the premise that AI multiplies what a senior engineer can own: agents do the first pass of assessment, porting, and scaffolding; you review, harden, and decide. The work is a distinctive loop. A prototype earns real usage in our experimental sandbox and arrives through a single front door. You assess it, decide what survives, often the idea and the workflow, rarely the code, and rebuild it as an enterprise-grade, production-spec service that meets our full engineering standards: SSO, audit logging, secrets management, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and security review, baked in from the first commit. While you build, you work directly with business partners, the forward-deployed pattern, pointed inward. Robinhood operates in a heavily regulated industry. Building fast here means building safely, and this team exists to help make sure those aren't in tension.

This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.

What You'll Do

• Assess vibe-coded prototypes from across the company and make the technical call: harden, rebuild, or redirect, then own the outcome end-to-end.
• Design, build, and ship services on Robinhood's enterprise platforms, meeting the company's full standards for secure, reliable enterprise software.
• Build AI-natively: drive agents through first-pass assessment, porting, and test scaffolding, and ship MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills as production artifacts where the solution calls for them.
• Work directly with sponsoring business units (Finance, HR, Legal, Compliance) during each build, translating real workflows into software people actually adopt.
• Deliver clean operational handoffs as part of your definition of done: runbooks, evals, and dashboards.
• Establish the paved patterns with the Enterprise Platforms team: when you solve the same problem twice, make it a platform capability the third time.
• Raise the bar on AI-era engineering quality, including rigorous, teaching-quality review of AI-generated code, your own and others'.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building and running production backend or full-stack systems, with a track record of independently delivering high-ambiguity projects end-to-end.
• Hands-on cloud depth, GCP preferred, including containerized services, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code, with a strong focus on a serverless stack.
• Demonstrated AI-native development: daily fluency with agentic coding tools, experience building LLM-powered applications or agentic workflows, and the judgment to review, harden, and productionize AI-generated code.
• Product sense and scoping discipline: you can find the 20% of a prototype worth keeping, say no to the rest, and finish, this team's leverage depends on engagements that end.
• Exceptional communication with non-engineers: you're comfortable embedded with finance, legal, or HR partners, translating in both directions without losing precision.
• Experience in highly regulated industries, particularly finance or fintech, is strongly preferred.

What We Offer

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
• Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• Best-in-class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
• Lifestyle wallet — a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
• Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
• Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
• Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.

In addition to the base pay range listed below, this role is also eligible for bonus opportunities + equity + benefits.

Base pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected base pay range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed and is aligned to one of 3 compensation zones. For other locations not listed, compensation can be discussed with your recruiter during the interview process.

Base Pay Range

Zone 1 (Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Bellevue, WA; Washington, DC)

$166,000—$195,000 USD

Zone 2 (Denver, CO; Westlake, TX; Chicago, IL)

$147,000—$172,000 USD

Zone 3 (Lake Mary, FL; Clearwater, FL; Gainesville, FL)

$130,000—$152,000 USD

Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards, which vary by region and entity.

If our mission energizes you and you’re ready to build the future of finance, we look forward to seeing your application.

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