Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Alpaca is a brokerage infrastructure company providing developer APIs for stocks, options, fixed income, and crypto trading, plus tokenization infrastructure for TradFi–DeFi markets.

Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026

San Mateo, California, United States
About Alpaca

Alpaca provides API-first brokerage infrastructure for fintechs, institutions, algorithmic traders, and developers. Its offerings include Broker API, Trading API, market data, self-clearing brokerage services, crypto services, and the Instant Tokenization Network for in-kind minting and redemption of tokenized assets.

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Skills

About the Role

You will build TypeScript and React experiences with supporting Go services. You will improve onboarding, app management, compliance review, marketplace discovery, consent, and permissions while integrating identity, account, trading, and market data systems. You will design secure APIs, automate manual workflows, and own features from design through production.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building production full-stack applications
  • Strong TypeScript and React skills
  • Experience with Go or another modern backend language
  • Strong SQL and relational database skills preferably PostgreSQL
  • Experience designing REST APIs and integrating distributed services
  • Experience with OAuth OIDC or similar authorization systems
  • Track record of delivering secure user-facing features end to end
  • Clear communication and sound judgment with incomplete or ambiguous requirements
  • Experience with developer platforms partner portals or marketplaces
  • Experience with compliance or operational workflows in a regulated industry
  • Experience with GCP Docker Kubernetes or production observability
  • Experience with financial markets brokerage systems or market data
  • Experience working at a startup or on a distributed remote team

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain TypeScript and React experiences with supporting Go services
  • Improve app onboarding testing compliance review approval publishing and management
  • Turn manual support and compliance work into auditable self-service workflows
  • Design APIs and integrations across identity account trading and market data systems
  • Own features from design through production

Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Health benefits
  • One-time USD $500 home-office setup
  • USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card