Senior Software 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.
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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.
Skills
About the Role
You will design, implement, and maintain backend systems that provide a complete and correct record of account activity. You will build scalable and stable services, deliver high-visibility features from design through deployment, debug and prevent issues, and collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working on systems at scale
- Strong coding skills preferably in Go
- Experience with IDLs such as protobuf
- Experience with RPC frameworks such as gRPC
- Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
- Experience in financial services or accounting
- Experience with distributed systems or databases
- Experience with event-driven systems and messaging brokers such as Redpanda
- Experience working remotely
- Experience working at a startup
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with finance operations and product stakeholders to deliver high-impact features
- Build backend systems with integrity maintainability scalability and stability
- Own high-visibility features from design through deployment
- Improve the health of software systems
- Design and implement ledger services that record and aggregate transactional data
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time USD $500 home-office setup
- USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card
