Software Engineer, Tokenization

Robinhood • Menlo Park, NY

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

Robinhood is building an elite team to apply frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems, aiming to democratize finance for all. 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 involves working at the intersection of blockchain technology, financial market infrastructure, and modern distributed systems, with a focus on accessibility, security, and scalability. The team is building the infrastructure to enable equity markets to operate outside of traditional night and weekend closures. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will build and own backend services for end-to-end tokenized equity functionality, 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. This role is based in Menlo Park, Toronto, or New York City offices, requiring at least 3 days per week of in-person attendance to foster progress, innovation, and community.

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.

Benefits

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
• Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• Top Tier benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
• Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

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