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Fintech, Financial Services

Android Engineer

New York, New York, United StatesHybridFull TimeEntry-level (exp-based)$128,000–$150,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Robinhood is seeking bold, ambitious Android Engineers to join their elite Events Contracts Engineering team in New York City. This role focuses on building and maintaining Android features that consume and reflect event-driven data from backend systems, ensuring reliable event communication across critical financial systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and integrate event contracts, improve app performance, and ensure data consistency. The ideal candidate will have 0-3 years of experience with Kotlin or Java, UI development using Android Views or Jetpack Compose, and API integration with real-time data. Robinhood offers a high-impact work environment with competitive compensation, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

Join us in building the future of finance.

Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.

About the team + role

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

The Events Contracts Engineering team builds and maintains the systems that power reliable event-driven communication across Robinhood’s platform. This team focuses on defining, validating, and evolving event contracts that enable services to interact predictably and at scale, ensuring consistency and reliability across critical financial systems!

As an Android Engineer, you will design and develop mobile platform capabilities that integrate with event-driven systems, enabling seamless user experiences powered by real-time data. You will collaborate closely with backend engineers, product managers, and designers to implement features, improve performance, and ensure correctness in how event data is surfaced within Android applications!

This role is based in our New York, NY office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.

What you’ll do:

Build and maintain Android features that consume and reflect event-driven data from backend systems

Collaborate with backend engineers to define and integrate event contracts into mobile applications

Improve app performance, reliability, and data consistency across user-facing features

Write and maintain tests to ensure correctness of event handling and application behavior

Contribute to code reviews and technical discussions to improve engineering quality

What you bring:

You bring 0-3 years experience building Android applications using Kotlin or Java

You have experience building UI using Android Views and/or Jetpack Compose

You have experience integrating APIs and handling real-time or near real-time data

You write clear, maintainable, and well-tested code

You are comfortable debugging performance issues and improving application reliability

You communicate effectively with engineers, product managers, and designers

What we offer:

Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career

Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching

Best in class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents

Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more

Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits

Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!

Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.

In addition to the base pay range listed below, this role is also eligible for bonus opportunities + equity + benefits.

Base pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected base pay range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed and is aligned to one of 3 compensation zones. For other locations not listed, compensation can be discussed with your recruiter during the interview process.

Base Pay Range:

Zone 1 (Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Bellevue, WA; Washington, DC)

$128,000—$150,000 USD

Zone 2 (Denver, CO; Westlake, TX; Chicago, IL)

$113,000—$132,000 USD

Zone 3 (Lake Mary, FL; Clearwater, FL; Gainesville, FL)

$100,000—$117,000 USD

Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards, which vary by region and entity.

If our mission energizes you and you’re ready to build the future of finance, we look forward to seeing your application.

Robinhood provides equal opportunity for all applicants, offers reasonable accommodations upon request, and complies with applicable equal employment and privacy laws. Inclusion is built into how we hire and work—welcoming different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences so everyone can do their best. Please review the Privacy Policy for your country of application.

Sample Robinhood interview questions

1
Design a highly distributed trading system
system designmedium
2
Design an app that hits an api and renders that data on the screen
system designdifficult
3
Build a real-time fraud detection system for financial transactions.
system designmedium
4
Build an app from scratch.
system designaverage
5
Create a leaderboard system for tracking game scores.
system designmedium

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