Staff Android Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Menlo Park, California, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week

Base pay: $230,000–$270,000 USD annually for Zone 1 locations; additional bonus opportunities, equity, and benefits are available.

Company

Robinhood is a financial technology company building products that democratize finance and help customers manage and grow their finances.

What you will do

• Define the technical direction for Android experiences across high-impact trading product areas.
• Build intuitive, reliable mobile systems using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern Android APIs.
• Lead complex initiatives from product and technical strategy through architecture, implementation, experimentation, launch, and long-term evolution.
• Partner with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, and Data Science to shape roadmaps and deliver customer and business impact.
• Establish architecture patterns and engineering practices that improve quality, scalability, maintainability, and developer velocity.
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, unblock technical decisions, and raise standards for execution and collaboration.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional Android application development experience, including technically complex or large-scale mobile initiatives.
• Deep proficiency with Kotlin and/or Java, Android SDK fundamentals, and architecture patterns such as MVVM.
• Strong experience with Jetpack Compose, Coroutines and Flow or RxJava, Retrofit, and Room in production environments.
• Ability to make sound architectural tradeoffs and lead through ambiguity across multiple projects or product surfaces.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience influencing cross-functional partners and mentoring senior engineers.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact work focused on modern financial products and mobile experiences.
• Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• Health insurance with 100% employee coverage and 90% dependent coverage.
• Flexible lifestyle wallet for wellness, learning, and other eligible expenses.
• Paid life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, mental health support, holidays, PTO, sick time, and parental leave.
• Office benefits including catered meals, stocked kitchens, and commuter support.