Senior Software Engineer, Prime

Join Robinhood's Prime team, which is building Bitstamp's prime brokerage for institutional clients. You'll own the design and end-to-end delivery of correctness-critical systems that move real institutional money: cross-venue settlement, credit against collateral, matched-book lending, and the bridge that brings tokenized securities to the order book. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll lead other engineers through problems of high ambiguity, set the technical bar for how we build for failure, and be a go-to technical partner for the team, stakeholders, and counterparts across Robinhood.

What you'll do

• Lead the design and end-to-end delivery of large, high-complexity systems that move institutional money, settlement, on-exchange credit, matched-book lending, and cross-venue order flows from spec through production and on-call support
• Author detailed technical designs and break work into reviewable steps, making failure states, invariants, and recovery explicit before shipping
• Shape the team's technical roadmap and architecture, advocating for the reliability, correctness, and risk-control work that keeps client money safe
• Uplevel the team through deep, design-focused code review and mentorship, and serve as a reliable technical point of contact for partner teams and Robinhood counterparts

What you bring

• A track record of independently delivering complex, high-ambiguity backend projects with long-term impact, operating them in production and owning every line you ship
• Hands-on experience building financial systems where correctness is non-negotiable: user balances, ledgers, risk engines, settlement, or payments
• Deep expertise in distributed state across boundaries, transactional integrity, idempotency, and exactly-once semantics
• Strong design judgment: you enumerate failure paths, name your invariants, and can point at the constraint, test, or alert that enforces each one
• Excellent communication to drive alignment across teams and product partners, give substantive design-level review feedback, and mentor engineers; fluency in a modern backend language, primarily Python (Django) or Go

What we offer

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
• Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, and equity ownership
• Top-tier benefits including supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs
• Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee
• Lifestyle wallet, a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account for expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, and learning
• Generous time off including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, and parental leave
• Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces
• Monthly commuter stipend to offset in-office commuting costs

This role is based in the London office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. You will participate in an on-call rotation to support business needs. Total rewards vary by region and entity.

About Robinhood

Robinhood's mission is to democratize finance for all. The company is building frontier technologies to solve the world's biggest financial problems and is at the forefront of the historic transfer of wealth happening over the next two decades.