Software Engineer Market Data
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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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and scale mission-critical market data services and developer-facing APIs. You will maintain software quality and test coverage, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot incidents, and work with modern cloud infrastructure, containers, orchestration, and streaming data technologies.
Requirements
- Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum 3 years of backend software development experience
- Docker or Kubernetes experience
- DevOps knowledge
- Agile and Scrum knowledge
Responsibilities
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical market data provider services
- Maintain software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time USD 500 home-office setup
- USD 150 monthly stipend via Brex Card