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.
We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.
The Prime team's mission is to build Bitstamp's prime brokerage for institutional clients — the platform that lets hedge funds, market makers, and professional trading firms fund, trade, borrow against, and settle positions at scale. We build the systems that move real institutional money: cross-venue settlement, credit against collateral, matched-book lending, and the bridge that brings tokenized securities to our order book. These are correctness-critical systems where a wrong answer can't be cheaply undone — getting them right is the whole job.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own the design and end-to-end delivery of the systems at the core of that mission. You'll lead other engineers through problems of high ambiguity, set the technical bar for how we build for failure and not just the happy path, and be a go-to technical partner for the team, our stakeholders, and our counterparts across Robinhood.
This role is based in our Slovenia office, 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. Applications for this role will be accepted through October 31st. Requires participation in an on-call rotation to support business needs.
What you’ll doLead 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.
Author detailed technical designs and break work into reviewable steps, guiding other engineers and making failure states, invariants, and recovery explicit before the happy path ships.
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 our Robinhood counterparts.
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 — user balances, ledgers, risk engines, settlement, or payments — where correctness is non-negotiable and mistakes are expensive.
Deep expertise in distributed state across boundaries, transactional integrity, idempotency, and exactly-once semantics.
Strong design judgment: you enumerate the failure paths, name your invariants, and can point at the constraint, test, or alert that enforces each one.
Excellent communication: you drive alignment across teams and product partners, give substantive design-level review feedback, and mentor engineers to raise the bar around you. You're fluent in a modern backend language — we work primarily in Python (Django) and Go.
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact and bonus programs
- Top tier benefits to fuel your work, 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, technical or not
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more.
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and more!
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
- Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs
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If our mission energizes you and you’re ready to build the future of finance, we look forward to seeing your application.
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Skills Required
- Track record of independently delivering complex, high-ambiguity backend projects with long-term impact
- Production operations experience and ownership of systems through deployment and ongoing support
- Hands-on experience building financial systems such as balances, ledgers, risk engines, settlement, or payments
- Deep expertise in distributed state, transactional integrity, idempotency, and exactly-once semantics
- Strong technical design judgment, including failure-path analysis, invariants, testing, and monitoring
- Excellent communication, cross-team alignment, design reviews, and engineering mentorship skills
- Fluency in a modern backend language, with Python, Django, and Go used primarily by the team
- Ability to work in the Slovenia office at least three days per week
- Availability to participate in an on-call rotation
Robinhood Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Robinhood and has not been reviewed or approved by Robinhood.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as best-in-class, with strong medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental-health support, and life and disability insurance. Low premiums and solid dependent coverage are also noted, reinforcing the strength of core health benefits.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants through RSUs and an ESPP are standard, and for many tech roles equity meaningfully lifts total compensation when the stock performs. Clear multi-year vesting schedules make ownership accessible as a core part of the pay mix.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave and fertility benefits are emphasized, with generous paid time for new parents cited as a standout. Family-oriented policies are consistently portrayed as a strong component of the package.
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What We Do
Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD) transformed financial services by introducing commission-free stock trading and democratizing access to the markets for millions of investors. Today, Robinhood, through its subsidiaries, lets you trade stocks, options, futures (which includes event contracts), and crypto, invest for retirement, earn with Robinhood Gold, and access an expert-managed portfolio with Robinhood Strategies. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Robinhood puts customers in the driver’s seat, delivering unprecedented value and products intentionally designed for a new generation of investors. Additional information about Robinhood can be found at www.robinhood.com.
Why Work With Us
At Robinhood, we are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. Every role can make a real impact. We’re a team of builders, doers, and bold thinkers who thrive in a high-performance environment and take pride in raising the bar for ourselves and the millions of customers we serve.
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