Senior Software Engineer Payments and Treasury
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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About the Role
You will design and implement scalable, event-driven services for payments and treasury. You will build and maintain microservices and client-facing APIs, contribute to technical goals, and ensure system integrity, operational scalability, and resilience.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Experience building and maintaining microservices
- Experience with client-facing APIs
- Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
- Ability to write clean, well-tested, maintainable code
- Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience with distributed systems design
- Understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle
- Experience with double-entry accounting and financial ledgers
Responsibilities
- Build and scale systems and services for payments and treasury
- Design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals
- Build and maintain microservices
- Develop client-facing APIs
- Ensure resilient engineering, technical scalability, operational scalability, and system integrity
- Participate in defining technical goals
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time USD 500 new-hire home-office setup
- USD 150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card