Senior Software Engineer - Market Data
Alpaca provides developer APIs for stock, options, and crypto trading, enabling businesses and developers to build trading applications and automate investment strategies.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About Alpaca
Alpaca helps developers and businesses access financial markets through API-first infrastructure for stock, options, and cryptocurrency trading. Users can build algorithmic trading strategies, create investing applications, and integrate brokerage services into their platforms.
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About the Role
You will build and scale market data systems and services, influence architecture, design mission-critical systems, implement scalable backend services, and improve software quality. You will participate in code reviews, troubleshoot incidents and bugs, and may provide on-call support for timely engineering projects.
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