Staff Software Engineer, New Markets Middle East
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
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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
Define technical direction for foundational software systems in the Middle East, designing architectures, APIs, and integrations primarily with Go. Lead multi-team initiatives, optimize performance, ensure reliability, scalability, and regulatory compliance, establish engineering standards, coordinate infrastructure and vendors, mentor engineers, and drive strategic technical reviews.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Exceptional expertise in system design, architecture, and performance optimization.
- Expert-level mastery of Go or similar backend languages.
- Experience building scalable, high-availability systems handling high transaction volumes.
- Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Extensive experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, pub/sub, and asynchronous processing.
- Ability to independently lead complex, multi-team initiatives.
- Exceptional problem-solving and debugging skills across multiple systems.
- Extensive unit, integration, and end-to-end testing experience.
- Deep expertise with GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and hybrid or multi-cloud architectures.
- Leadership in strategic discussions and organizational technical direction.
- Exceptional mentoring, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Willingness and ability to travel occasionally within the Middle East region.
- Financial systems, fintech, distributed systems, microservices, or regulatory compliance experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Architect foundational software systems using Go or similar languages.
- Design event-driven architectures, message queues, and asynchronous processing systems.
- Build and maintain APIs, services, and integrations.
- Optimize system performance at scale and resolve systemic issues.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and regulatory compliance.
- Establish coding standards, testing practices, and development processes.
- Lead complex multi-team initiatives from conception to delivery.
- Coordinate infrastructure, cloud providers, data center vendors, and managed service providers.
- Define vendor management strategies and ensure SLAs are met.
- Mentor engineers across all levels and share technical knowledge.
- Document architectural decisions and communicate technical guidance.
- Own strategic initiative outcomes and manage associated risks.
- Improve tooling, monitoring, testing, and observability practices.
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time home-office setup of USD 500
- Monthly stipend of USD 150 via Brex Card