Staff Software Engineer, Government Products

About the role

Join us in building the future of finance. 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.

What You'll Do

• Lead the technical design, architectural strategy, and implementation of a brand-new, standalone backend infrastructure optimized for security, reliability, and scale.
• Design secure data pipelines and robust APIs to integrate government-backed registries, employer contribution frameworks, and institutional banking systems.
• Guide engineering teams across Robinhood's broader brokerage ecosystem, fostering technical excellence, setting high bar code standards, and mentoring senior engineers.
• Partner closely with Product, Security, Legal, and external stakeholders to navigate the unique protections and technical compliance protocols of a highly regulated government contract.
• Own backend stability and performance tuning ahead of initial high-volume user rollouts and the general public launch.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of operating as a principal or staff-level engineer, driving multi-year technical vision, long-term architecture, and strategic direction for large-scale distributed systems.
• Advanced mastery-level proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed infrastructure and secure data pipelines using Python or Go.
• Deep expertise in domain modeling, microservices architecture, and building highly reliable APIs capable of orchestrating complex cross-functional data flows across multiple engineering domains.
• Demonstrable execution in a zero-to-one product space, navigating high levels of technical ambiguity, setting foundational engineering patterns, and systematically de-risking complex technical blockers.
• Experience serving as a primary technical point of contact across an entire organization, with a strong commitment to raising the engineering bar by sponsoring and mentoring senior engineers.
• Exceptional communication skills with a proven capability to partner closely with Product, Security, Compliance, and external institutional partners to translate highly complex legal or regulatory constraints into clean, maintainable backend infrastructure.

What we offer

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
• Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
• Best in class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
• 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.

Position Restriction

This position is restricted to US citizens or lawful permanent residents.