Senior Software Engineer New Markets
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 8/29/2026
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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.
Skills
About the Role
Design, implement, and maintain scalable brokerage systems and services, including backend microservices, React-based internal interfaces, and third-party integrations. Enhance frameworks for multiple languages, currencies, and markets; troubleshoot incidents and bugs; lead regional incident response; support regulatory requirements; collaborate with global stakeholders; participate in on-call support; and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages
- Experience designing robust system architectures
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- Software engineering architecture experience
- Experience with event-driven design
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to work independently in a fully remote globally distributed team
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Strategic thinking and ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies
- Experience with AI tooling such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex
- Experience with domain-driven design
- Experience working with global teams
- Experience in financial services, online trading platforms, brokerage systems, or fintech
- Experience designing complex financial systems including double-entry accounting
- Understanding of financial transaction processing, trade lifecycle management, and settlement processes
- Experience with online trading systems, order management, execution, market data processing, and real-time trade processing
- Experience building scalable high-availability financial applications handling multi-currency transactions
- Experience with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes
- Familiarity with financial market regulatory compliance requirements
Responsibilities
- Design scalable mission-critical brokerage systems
- Develop middle- and back-office systems
- Build gRPC microservices
- Develop React-based interfaces for internal administration and API developers
- Integrate third-party vendors
- Enhance frameworks to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets
- Collaborate with technical leads across regions
- Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
- Lead incident response as incident commander
- Support regulatory requirements
- Mentor engineering talent
- Participate in on-call support
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time USD 500 new hire home-office setup
- USD 150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card
