Company: Robinhood Financial
Location: London
Job Description:
Overview
In this role you will own the end-to-end delivery of features for Robinhood’s Prime brokerage platform, spanning backend services, frontend, and backoffice tooling. You will lead engineers, set a high technical bar for failure handling, and address problems across the institutional lifecycle. The position requires flexibility to own components across settlement, onboarding, lending, and client-facing dashboards. This London-based role includes an on-call rotation and in-person collaboration to accelerate progress and impact.
Pay / Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for impact
- equity ownership
- private medical insurance for you and dependents
- Aviva Pension Scheme with company matching
- Lifestyle Wallet for benefits spending
- generous paid time off and parental leave
Responsibilities
- Lead design and end-to-end delivery across the stack (backend settlement, credit, lending, tokenized securities through to frontend and backoffice)
- Own client- and ops-facing journeys across onboarding, account configuration, reporting, and operations tooling
- Draft detailed designs, specify failure states and invariants, and plan recovery before shipping
- Mentor engineers and lead design-focused code reviews, transitioning smoothly between backend and frontend as needed
- Participate in on-call rotation to support business needs
Key requirements
- Track record delivering complex, high-ambiguity projects in production and owning all code shipped
- Strong full-stack production experience with Python/Django and Go backend and Vue frontend
- Hands-on experience building financial systems (balances, ledgers, risk engines, settlement, onboarding/KYC, payments) with high accuracy
- Strong design judgment: enumerate failure paths, name invariants, and specify enforcement via tests/alerts
- Excellent communication and ability to align multiple teams and stakeholders, plus mentoring abilities
- strong communication
- mentorship
- problem-solving
- Python/Django
- Go
- Vue
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Posted: October 1st, 2026