Senior Fullstack Engineer Auth Team
Alpaca is a brokerage infrastructure company providing developer APIs for stocks, options, fixed income, and crypto trading, plus tokenization infrastructure for TradFi–DeFi markets.
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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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own authentication, authorization, and identity-provider services end to end. You will design APIs and data models, build backend services and auth-related UI, manage deployments, monitor production systems, troubleshoot incidents, and help other teams integrate identity and access capabilities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience writing code in strongly typed languages
- At least one year of Go experience
- Experience building web applications with React and TypeScript
- Experience with relational databases
- Startup experience
- Experience taking work from requirements through implementation deployment and monitoring
- At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
Responsibilities
- Build and improve authentication experiences for customer and partner web applications
- Develop and maintain authentication authorization and identity-provider services
- Create and evolve shared libraries and SDKs
- Integrate with identity providers and maintain reliable login and access policies
- Deploy monitor and troubleshoot identity services in production
- Modernize legacy authentication patterns
- Own work from requirements through delivery and follow-up
- Collaborate with engineering teams on identity and access integration
- Maintain code quality write tests and participate in code reviews
- Investigate incidents and bugs and participate in on-call rotation
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- New-hire home-office setup stipend of USD 500
- Monthly stipend of USD 150 via a Brex Card
