Software Engineer, Web3 Backend
Robinhood· ENG Platforms
Hybrid (Toronto, ON)CA$136k - CA$160kfull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Backend-focused software engineer role at Robinhood, building and owning backend services, infrastructure, and data systems to support crypto, web3, and wallet offerings with emphasis on correctness, scalability, and cross-team collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and deploy scalable backend services and infrastructure across Robinhood Wallet, Tokenization, and Web3 platform systems, with correctness and auditability as hard requirements.
- Build the connective tissue between traditional market infrastructure (brokerage, ledgers, corporate actions) and on-chain systems, including smart contract integrations, chain indexers, and DEX trade flows.
- Develop product-facing features and platform enhancements that meet strict correctness and scalability standards.
- Identify and implement improvements to system performance, engineering productivity, and risk reduction.
- Collaborate closely with product, compliance, client, platform teams, and external partners to deliver impactful technical solutions.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in software development.
- Expertise in backend development using languages such as Go, Python, or Java, with a solid grasp of cloud-native architectures.
- Strong grasp of system design, data modeling, and software engineering fundamentals.
- Care for correctness-critical systems—idempotency, reconciliation, and reasoning carefully about failure modes when money is at stake.
- Strong ownership mindset, with a track record of delivering high-quality projects end to end in cross-functional environments and raising team-wide technical standards.
- Proven ability to simplify complex problems, make sound tradeoffs, and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders.
- Interest in blockchain fundamentals—EVM, smart contracts, wallets, on-chain settlement—or a strong appetite to go deep quickly.
Skills
Required:Backend developmentProgramming languagesSystem design
Benefits
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, and equity ownership
- 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
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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