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.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
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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.
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
