Robinhood

Software Engineer

Robinhood$166K — $195K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience in building and running production systems
  • Hands-on experience with cloud environments, preferably GCP
  • Proficient in AI-native development, particularly with LLM applications
  • Strong product sense with the ability to prioritize features effectively
  • Exceptional communication skills to collaborate with non-engineers
  • Experience in regulated industries, particularly finance or fintech

Responsibilities

  • Assess and decide the fate of prototypes, determining whether to harden, rebuild, or redirect them
  • Design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade services adhering to strict security and reliability standards
  • Utilize AI tools to streamline the assessment and development process
  • Engage with business units like Finance and HR to align software solutions with practical workflows
  • Provide comprehensive operational documentation as part of project completion
  • Create reusable patterns as solutions to recurring problems
  • Enhance engineering quality by rigorously reviewing AI-generated code

Benefits

  • Challenging work that supports career growth
  • Performance-driven compensation structure with potential bonuses and equity
  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees and dependents
  • Flexible benefits spending account for personal wellness and learning
  • Employer-supported life and disability insurance, fertility, and mental health benefits
  • Generous time-off policies including holidays and parental leave
  • Inviting office environment with catered meals and community events
Full Job Description
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.

About Robinhood

Robinhood is a financial services company that offers commission-free trading through its website and mobile app. The company was founded in 2013 by Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Robinhood's mission is to democratize finance for all by making investing accessible to everyone. The company has raised over $5 billion in funding and has over 13 million users. Robinhood has faced criticism for its business model, which relies on selling order flow to market makers, and for its handling of the GameStop trading frenzy in early 2021.
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2,000 employees
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2013

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