Software Engineer, Tokenization

Robinhood•Menlo Park, CA

21h•$130,000 - $195,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Robinhood is building an elite team to apply frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. 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. This role operates at the intersection of blockchain technology, financial market infrastructure, and modern distributed systems, focusing on accessibility, security, and scalability. The team is building the infrastructure to enable equity markets to be open nights and weekends. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will build and own backend services for the end-to-end process of tokenized equities, including issuance, custody, and settlement on-chain, ensuring synchronization with traditional brokerage and ledger systems. You will ship product-facing features and platform capabilities in a domain where correctness is critical, as the systems handle real customer assets continuously, around the clock. This role is based in either the Menlo Park, Toronto, or New York City offices, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. Robinhood believes in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community, with an intentional and energizing office experience designed to support high-performing teams.

Requirements

2+ years of experience in software development
Expertise in backend development using languages such as Go, Python, or Java, with a solid grasp of cloud-native architectures
Strong grasp of system design, data modeling, and software engineering fundamentals
Care for correctness-critical systems - idempotency, reconciliation, and reasoning carefully about failure modes when money is at stake
Strong ownership mindset, with a track record of delivering high-quality projects end to end in cross-functional environments
Interest in blockchain fundamentals - EVM, smart contracts, wallets, on-chain settlement - or a strong appetite to go deep quickly

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, and deploy the backend services that mint, custody, and settle tokenized equities on the Robinhood Chain, with correctness and auditability as hard requirements
Develop product-facing features and platform enhancements that meet strict correctness and scalability standards
Build the connective tissue between traditional market infrastructure (brokerage, ledgers, corporate actions) and on-chain systems, including smart contract integrations, chain indexers, and DEX trade flows
Identify and implement improvements to system performance, engineering productivity, and risk reduction
Collaborate closely with product, compliance, client, and platform teams to deliver impactful technical solutions