Senior Software Engineer - Market Data
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
Build and scale market data systems and services, influence architecture, design mission-critical systems, implement scalable backend services, improve software quality, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot incidents and bugs, and provide on-call support when needed.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Experience with compiled imperative languages such as Go, C, C++, or Rust
- SQL or relational database skills
- Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP networking
- Proficiency with Linux or BSD and shell scripting
- Experience architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
- Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration systems
- Experience with major cloud platforms
- Understanding of POSIX-like operating systems
- Understanding of modern infrastructure and orchestration practices
Responsibilities
- Influence the architecture of market data systems
- Design highly scalable mission-critical systems
- Optimize for low latency
- Implement backend services
- Lead architecture for scalable and resilient systems
- Maintain software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
- Provide on-call support for engineering projects when needed
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time USD 500 new-hire home-office setup
- USD 150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card