Senior Software Engineer Agent Experiences

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

Series DRecently funded
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 lead the architecture for safe agent execution from tool calls to trading systems. You will build account-level policies, guardrails, and services that enforce rules on trading actions, own their reliability, guide cross-team technical decisions, review designs, mentor engineers, and help define the control model with product, compliance, risk, and identity stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems
  • Experience shipping autonomous execution under explicit policy controls
  • Experience designing and implementing account-level policy with audited action-path enforcement
  • MCP architecture knowledge, including stateless and stateful behavior
  • Experience building to MCP, connector, plugin, or skill standards in production
  • Ability to define unattended-action account rules with product, compliance, and risk stakeholders
  • Proficiency in Python or TypeScript
  • Willingness to work primarily in Go
  • Strong architectural judgment
  • Clear communication with engineering, product, compliance, and risk partners

Responsibilities

  • Lead application architecture for safe agent execution through trading systems
  • Design and build account-level policies and guardrails for external agent actions
  • Own services that evaluate rules before trading systems
  • Define agent-initiated trading behavior with tool and skill engineers
  • Maintain execution models as MCP, connector, plugin, and skill standards change
  • Partner with product, compliance, risk, and identity stakeholders to define and ship control models
  • Own production reliability for policy and guardrail services
  • Review cross-team designs and guide technical decisions
  • Mentor engineers and improve design and implementation quality

Benefits

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