- Company: Robinhood
- Location: London, UK
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, and equity ownership
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About the role
Robinhood is building an elite team to apply frontier technologies to major financial problems. The Prime team is developing Bitstamp’s prime brokerage for institutional clients, enabling hedge funds and market makers to onboard, trade, and settle positions at scale. As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will own the design and delivery of features across the entire stack, from backend services to frontend and backoffice tools. This role is based in London, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and end-to-end delivery of features across Prime backend services, including settlement, on-exchange credit, lending, and tokenized securities.
- Own client- and ops-facing journeys across the institutional lifecycle, such as onboarding, account configuration, and reporting.
- Author detailed designs and break work into reviewable steps, making failure states and recovery explicit before shipping.
- Uplevel the team through design-focused code review and mentorship, moving fluidly between backend and frontend as needed.
Requirements
- A track record of independently delivering complex, high-ambiguity projects with long-term impact in production.
- Strong full-stack range in production, with experience in Python/Django, Go, and Vue.
- Hands-on experience building financial systems, such as user balances, ledgers, risk engines, settlement, or payments.
- Strong design judgment, including the ability to enumerate failure paths and name invariants.
- Excellent communication skills to drive alignment across teams and mentor engineers.
- Participation in an on-call rotation to support business needs.
Pay and benefits
- Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, and equity ownership.
- 100% employer-paid private medical insurance for you and comprehensive coverage for dependents.
- Mental health and wellbeing support programs.
- Aviva Pension Scheme with highly competitive company matching.
- Lifestyle Wallet: A flexible employer-paid benefits spending account for wellness, learning, childcare, and more.
- Access to top-tier AI tools and continuous AI skill-building opportunities.
- Generous paid time off, company holidays, sick time, parental leave, and paid volunteer time off.
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, fully stocked snacks, team social events, and modern workspaces.
How to apply
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