Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering (Fintech)

Location: Menlo Park, California office with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. Compensation zones also include New York, Bellevue, Washington, Denver, Westlake, Chicago, Lake Mary, Clearwater, and Gainesville in the United States.

Salary: $196,000–$230,000 USD annually for Zone 1; $172,000–$202,000 USD annually for Zone 2; $153,000–$179,000 USD annually for Zone 3. Additional bonus, equity, and benefits are available.

Company

Robinhood builds financial products with a mission to democratize finance for all.

What you will do

• Define and build key datasets across Robinhood product areas, evolving them as use cases grow.
• Build scalable Python, Spark, and Airflow pipelines that ingest application events and database snapshots into the data lake.
• Partner with upstream engineering teams to improve data generation patterns.
• Collaborate with data consumers to understand usage patterns and design intuitive, well-documented data models.
• Contribute to shared data engineering tooling, standards, and best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience building end-to-end data pipelines.
• Production-level Python software engineering experience beyond data scripting or automation.
• Expertise building and maintaining large-scale pipelines with open-source frameworks such as Spark or Flink.
• Strong SQL skills, including Presto or Spark SQL.
• Experience solving problems across data infrastructure, analytics, and visualization platforms.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to turn data into actionable solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact work focused on financial products and data-informed decision-making.
• Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• Health, life, disability, fertility, and mental health benefits.
• Paid holidays, paid time off, sick time, and parental leave.
• Flexible lifestyle wallet for wellness, learning, and other expenses.
• Office amenities including catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.