The Staff Backend Engineer will join the Prediction Markets team at Robinhood, focusing on building backend infrastructure for event contracts. This role is pivotal as the team transitions into a scaled engineering organization, emphasizing engineering excellence and ownership. The engineer will collaborate with product and engineering leadership to ensure robust infrastructure that supports rapid growth. The position is based in Menlo Park, CA, or New York, NY, with a strong emphasis on in-person collaboration.

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with a strong track record at IC6 / Staff Engineer scope or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, distributed systems with a focus on high availability, performance, and reliability.
• Experience or genuine interest in prediction markets, sports betting, fantasy sports, trading platforms, or financial exchange systems.
• Strong technical leadership skills with a history of driving engineering excellence roadmaps.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, comfortable engaging with product, leadership, and engineering stakeholders.
• B2C product experience and an understanding of building for millions of end users.

• Own the technical roadmap for core Prediction Markets backend systems, identifying gaps and driving execution.
• Design and build highly scalable, low-latency backend services that support real-time trading and event resolution.
• Lead engineering excellence initiatives focused on code quality, reliability, observability, and system resilience.
• Partner with product, platform, and other engineering teams to align technical direction with business goals.
• Mentor and level up engineers across the team, fostering a culture of ownership.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and shaping the engineering culture as the team scales.