IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer, Prime

Robinhood Financial

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Prime team, you own the design and end-to-end delivery of core systems that move institutional capital. You will lead engineers through high-ambiguity problems, set the bar for reliable, correct architecture, and act as a technical partner across Robinhood. The role combines hands-on building with leadership to ensure safety and scalability in capital markets workflows. You will work in London, contributing to a mission-critical platform for institutional clients and tokenized securities. This is an opportunity to shape high-stakes financial infrastructure while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Pay / Benefits
  • performance-based compensation with multipliers
  • equity ownership
  • comprehensive health benefits and mental health support
  • access to AI tools and ongoing AI skills training
  • lifestyle wallet for wellness, childcare, learning
  • generous time off and parental leave
Responsibilities
  • Lead design and end-to-end delivery of large, complex systems moving institutional money (settlement, credit, lending, cross-venue flows) from spec to production
  • Create detailed technical designs, decompose work, and define failure states and invariants before shipping
  • Shape the team's architecture and roadmap with a focus on reliability, correctness, and risk control
  • Elevate the team through design-focused code reviews and mentorship; serve as a technical contact for partner teams
Key requirements
  • Track record of independently delivering complex, high-ambiguity backend projects in production
  • Experience building financial systems with non-negotiable correctness (balances, ledgers, risk, settlement, payments)
  • Deep expertise in distributed state, transactional integrity, idempotency, and exactly-once semantics
  • Strong design judgment with explicit failure paths, invariants, and enforcement mechanisms
  • Excellent communication and ability to align across teams and partners
  • Proficiency in Python (Django) and Go
  • strong communication
  • mentorship
  • cross-team collaboration
  • Python (Django)
  • Go
  • distributed systems

Reference: WJ-747_30205341

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