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.
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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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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
