Senior Software Engineer (Web3 Backend)
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Summary
Architects, builds, and scales backend services, infrastructure, and data systems for Robinhood's crypto, web3, and wallet offerings, including Robinhood Chain. Provides technical leadership and mentorship, using Go or Python to operate high-scale distributed systems that move customer assets 24/7.
- 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
- Build scalable systems and components, making the right tradeoffs to account for stability and long-term maintainability
- Design, write, test, and release critical technical solutions with high engineering rigor
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams and deliver large-scope technical quality projects
- Mentor junior developers on the team and lead project of large complexity
- Find opportunities to improve system performance, team efficiency, and minimize risks
- 5+ years of software development experience working in a fast paced environment
- Strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software lifecycle
- Proficiency in Go or Python, with exceptional technical grasp with problem-solving and production debugging skills
- 3+ years experience writing low latency, large scale distributed systems for Crypto domains
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
- Experience mentoring junior developers and leading the team technically on new initiatives and system improvement