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Senior Software Developer, Backend Lead

Robinhood
Toronto, ON
$100K-$120K a year (estimated)
Full-time

Join a leading fintech company that’s democratizing finance for all.

Robinhood Markets was founded on a simple idea : that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood and its subsidiaries and affiliates are lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information.

Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.

With growth as the top priority...

The business is seeking curious, growth-minded thinkers to help shape our vision, structures and systems; playing a key-role as we launch into our ambitious future.

If you’re invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world we’d love to have you apply.

About the team(s) + role(s)

Growth

The Growth team's mission is to guide our customers in selecting relevant products that enhance their financial journey. We are actively developing new types of incentives to facilitate this process and are considering converting it to a platform to further streamline and enhance these efforts.

As the member of the team, you will tackle sophisticated technical challenges and build products to help optimize user engagement and empower customers.

As a Senior Software Developer on the Growth team, you’ll have the opportunity to craft the future of financial technology.

Brokerage

The Stock Lending, Margin & Sweeps (SMS) team's mission is to build long term investment products that grow with the needs of our customers.

Stock Lending, Margin and Sweeps are high impact features owned by this team and any incremental changes to them will have a significant impact on our revenue streams.

We constantly iterate on the product offerings based on user research and Market data and Tiered Margin rates is one such offering that’s recently launched and well received by our user base.

As a core and senior member in the SMS team, you will have the opportunity to build a very scalable and reliable platform that powers our features i.

e SLIP (Stock lending), Margin and Sweeps. Come join us to truly accelerate our mission of democratizing finance for all.

Crypto

The Crypto International team’s mission is to build features for our offering in European Union. As a Senior Software Developer, you will have a highly visible and impactful role at a relatively small company directly building the core backend services that supports our mobile and web applications.

What you’ll do

  • Build scalable systems and components, making the right tradeoffs to account for stability and long-term maintainability.
  • Design, write, test, and release product-facing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements.
  • Collaborate with our frontend and data teams to fine tune our REST APIs supporting millions of customers.
  • Mentor junior developers on the team and lead project of large complexity
  • Identify opportunities to improve system performance, team productivity and reduce risk

What you bring

  • 5+ years of software development experience.
  • 3+ years experience writing low latency, large scale distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems and good intuition for REST API design.
  • Proven experience working on large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team.
  • Strong technical grasp with excellent judgment on task prioritizations.
  • Ability to solve complex engineering problems that deliver results aligned with team objectives.
  • Ability to mentor junior developers and lead the team technically on new initiatives and system improvements

Our team is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming interview experience for all candidates. If you require a specific accommodation during the application or interview process due to a physical or mental condition, please complete this to notify our team.

The form should only be completed if you need a specific accommodation.

Click to learn more about available Benefits, which vary by region and Robinhood entity.

We’re looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all.

If you’re ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission we’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting.

At Robinhood, we're looking for people invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

Robinhood embraces a diversity of backgrounds and experiences and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees.

We are dedicated to building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work (and work environment) will be for everyone.

Additionally, Robinhood provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights.

Please review the specific applicable to the country where you are applying.

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