Senior Software Engineer - Clearing
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
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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
Work on post-trade and clearing systems for broker-dealer operations, including new systems and integrations, securities finance features, reliable production services, and backend APIs.
Requirements
- 5+ years hands-on experience building reliable distributed systems
- Proficient in Go
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Ability to design RESTful APIs
- Experience operating production services and participating in on-call rotations
- Foundational knowledge of computers, networks, databases, and distributed systems
- Experience working at startups
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend clearing and post-trade systems
- Own projects from ideation to deployment
- Integrate new clearing and settlement systems
- Implement securities finance features and product enabling infrastructure
- Refine and improve existing systems for reliability and performance
- Design and implement RESTful APIs
- Participate in on-call rotation and troubleshoot production incidents
- Maintain observability and monitoring for production services
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time home-office setup reimbursement (USD 500)
- Monthly stipend (USD 150) via Brex Card
