Senior Web Engineer, Options (Fintech)

Location: Menlo Park, CA office with in-person hybrid attendance expected at least 3 days per week.

Salary: $196,000–$230,000 USD base pay for Zone 1 locations, including Menlo Park, with bonus opportunities, equity, and benefits.

Company

Robinhood builds financial products designed to democratize finance and provides web platforms for customer trading.

What you will do

• Act as technical lead for web options development and set direction on platform topics such as performance and observability.
• Design, build, test, and roll out React and TypeScript features across trading flows, options onboarding, monitoring tools, Robinhood.com, and Legend.
• Own projects end to end, including large cross-team initiatives, and break complex work into deliverable pieces while guiding other engineers.
• Diagnose performance and data issues, including options calculations, identify root causes, and establish monitoring to detect problems early.
• Partner with product managers, designers, content designers, and the mobile options team to shape and deliver consistent customer-facing features.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong web engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience building production web applications with React and TypeScript.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, including finding root causes in performance and data problems.
• Experience owning projects end to end from design through development, testing, and rollout.
• Experience leading projects and setting technical direction, such as improving performance or observability.
• Clear communication of technical tradeoffs with engineers, product managers, and designers.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with options trading or other fintech and trading products; options experience is not required and the domain will be taught.
• Prior tech lead experience, including experience at smaller companies.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact work in a fast-moving, performance-oriented environment with ethics at the center.
• Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• Health insurance, including 100% employee coverage and 90% dependent coverage, plus life, disability, fertility, and mental health benefits.
• Paid time off, company holidays, sick time, and parental leave.
• Flexible lifestyle wallet for wellness and learning, access to AI tools and AI skill-building, and an office with catered meals, events, and supported workspaces.