Software Backend Engineer, Credit Cards & Banking Infrastructure

Robinhood • Menlo Park, CA

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.
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
The Money Infrastructure team builds the backbone of Robinhood’s Credit Card and Banking products. We own the core infrastructure, reliability, scalability, observability, incident response, and developer experience that make money movement safe, correct, and fast at scale. We also lead adoption of AI-powered engineering tooling that helps teams build faster, review better, monitor more intelligently, and operate with greater clarity. Our mandate is simple: raise the technical ceiling of the organization and remove the friction that slows it down.
As a Software Backend Engineer, Credit Card & Banking Infrastructure, you’ll work on the high-leverage systems problems that matter most as the business grows. You’ll design and build backend and platform capabilities that improve resiliency, simplify complexity, strengthen operational excellence, and accelerate engineering teams across the stack. This is a strong fit for an engineer with range, ambition, and a high quality bar—someone who wants to learn quickly, take ownership early, and help shape the infrastructure behind products used at massive scale.
This role is based in our Bellevue, WA, or New York, NY office(s), 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.

Requirements

• A passion for building and operating production backend systems where correctness, security, and reliability are non-negotiable.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals and a track record of working effectively in service-oriented architectures at scale.
• The ability to spot leverage: you use metrics, traces, and incident data to uncover root causes and drive meaningful improvements.
• Clear, confident technical communication, and excellent cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Sound engineering judgment and strong ownership—you can make smart trade-offs, execute with urgency, and raise the bar around you.
• You are looking to do your best work somewhere where you’ll be surrounded, challenged, and inspired by people who run just as fast as you do.

Responsibilities

• Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of core money movement and ledger-adjacent systems, including resilience under rapid traffic spikes.
• Find and fix structural weaknesses in architecture and operations to reduce incidents, manual toil, and on-call burden.
• Build internal tooling and automation that make engineers faster and more effective, including AI-assisted workflows for diagnosis, testing, and operational analysis.
• Raise the bar on observability and operational excellence through better dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and incident follow-through.
• Partner across Credit Card & Banking to shape technical designs, harden service boundaries, and deliver safe, high-quality launches.

Benefits

• Challenging work with opportunities to grow your career
• Compensation tied to performance, including bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
• Comprehensive benefits, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
• Lifestyle wallet - a 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed