About the role
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
Growth is one of Robinhood’s highest-impact engineering areas where you’ll build the experiences and systems that shape acquisition, activation, and long-term customer engagement.
The team works on products tied closely to core company outcomes — including net funded accounts, net deposits, and Gold subscribers. This is where strong execution translates quickly into visible business impact.
As a Senior Backend Engineer on Growth, you’ll be expected to operate with outsized ownership and impact. This is the perfect role for an engineer who can lead high-leverage projects while also strengthening the systems, patterns, and technical foundations that make the broader organization more effective. You’ll partner closely with product, design, data, and peer engineering teams to build reliable backend services, unlock high-impact customer experiences, and raise the scale at which Robinhood can move. The right candidate will act as a force multiplier for the team: driving ambiguous initiatives, shaping architecture, elevating execution quality, and creating durable backend capabilities that extend well beyond any single project.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and evolve backend services and APIs that power Robinhood Gold experiences and growth journeys
- Own projects end to end, from technical design through launch, measurement, and iteration
- Partner closely with product, design, data, and peer engineering teams to translate ambiguous opportunities into scalable systems
- Improve service reliability, performance, observability, and developer velocity for product-facing backend systems
- Help shape architecture and technical direction for systems that support subscription experiences, member benefits, and engagement flows
- Use metrics and sound engineering judgment to make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
- Mentor other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and hands-on collaboration
- Raise the engineering bar by driving high standards in system design, execution, and operational excellence