Staff Backend Engineer — Secure Government Platforms

Robinhood; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

Catered meals

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Robinhood is building an elite Government Products team in New York, seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the backend architecture for a high-visibility, 0-to-1 initiative. You will design secure data pipelines, scalable services, and cross-functional integrations with government systems to serve millions of users.

You’ll mentor engineers, set patterns for reliability and security, partner with Product, Security, Legal, and external partners, and work in our New York office three days a week

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience at principal or staff level, driving multi-year technical vision and architecture for large-scale systems.
• Advanced proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed infrastructure and secure data pipelines using Python or Go.
• Deep expertise in domain modeling, microservices, and building reliable APIs for cross-functional data flows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design, architectural strategy, and implementation of a new backend infrastructure focused on security, reliability, and scale.
• Design secure data pipelines and robust APIs to integrate government-backed registries and institutional systems.
• Mentor senior engineers and set high code standards across Robinhood's ecosystem.
• Collaborate with Product, Security, Legal, and external stakeholders to navigate regulatory constraints of a government contract.
• Own backend stability and performance ahead of high-volume rollouts.

Skills

Staff engineer

Distributed systems

Python/Go

APIs

Mentoring

Cross-functional

Job description

Robinhood is building an elite Government Products team in New York, seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the backend architecture for a high-visibility, 0-to-1 initiative. You will design secure data pipelines, scalable services, and cross-functional integrations with government systems to serve millions of users.

You’ll mentor engineers, set patterns for reliability and security, partner with Product, Security, Legal, and external partners, and work in our New York office three days a week