Senior Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

Alpaca is a brokerage infrastructure company providing developer APIs for stocks, options, fixed income, and crypto trading, plus tokenization infrastructure for TradFi–DeFi markets.

Series DRecently funded
San Mateo, California, United States
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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Skills

About the Role

Build and own frameworks, tooling, and CI/CD infrastructure for reliable software delivery. Write Go, design automated test frameworks for REST and gRPC APIs, use LLMs and AI-driven tooling for test generation and regression coverage, create load and chaos tests, improve developer tooling, investigate failures, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production systems
  • Strongly typed language experience with at least 1 year of Go experience
  • Fluency with AI-assisted engineering and LLM-based tools
  • Experience building and maintaining CI pipelines
  • Experience designing and building automated test frameworks for microservices
  • Kubernetes experience beyond the basics, including Helm and security best practices
  • Prior startup experience
  • Ability to take tasks from requirements through deployment and monitoring

Responsibilities

  • Design and build automated test frameworks across REST and gRPC API surfaces
  • Leverage AI and LLM-based tooling to accelerate test generation and regression coverage
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build
  • Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests
  • Introduce chaos engineering practices with fault-injection and resilience experiments
  • Standardize tooling and infrastructure to improve developer experience
  • Partner with teams to raise test coverage, reliability, and delivery speed
  • Root-cause failures in application code and drive fixes to completion
  • Mentor product engineers and foster a culture of quality and continuous improvement

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options
  • Health benefits
  • One-time USD $500 home-office setup
  • Monthly stipend of USD $150 via a Brex Card