Senior Android Engineer, Trading Products
Robinhood · Menlo Park, CA
$196,000–$230,000
Jul 7, 2026
Menlo Park, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior Android engineering role on a stock trading team, focused on building and maintaining the mobile surfaces through which customers research, place, and manage equity trades. Day-to-day work spans feature development in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, technical design, cross-functional collaboration with product and design, and mentoring junior engineers. Suits an experienced Android engineer comfortable leading complex projects and influencing architectural decisions.
Senior level · 6+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $196,000–$230,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 60 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (mobile application developers). range 35–95
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role is based in Menlo Park, CA or New York City, NY with a 3-day/week in-office requirement — it is not remote. The primary CBSA reported is New York (Zone 1), but Menlo Park (San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA CBSA 41940) is an equally valid primary location; compensation is the same for both under Zone 1.
The posted base pay range ($196,000–$230,000/year) reflects Zone 1 (Menlo Park, CA and New York, NY). Zone 2 (Denver, CO; Westlake, TX; Chicago, IL) is $172,000–$202,000 and Zone 3 (Lake Mary/Clearwater/Gainesville, FL) is $153,000–$179,000.
The JD notes the role could 'flex into staff-level scope for the right candidate,' signaling upward mobility but the baseline requirement is Senior.
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science is listed in the requirements section but explicitly accepts 'equivalent experience,' so no minimum degree is hard-gated.
Kotlin and Java are listed as 'Proficiency with Kotlin and/or Java' — treated as a single interchangeable requirement with Kotlin as primary. Coroutines & Flow and RxJava are similarly listed as alternatives for the reactive/async requirement.
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