Alpaca
201 - 500 employees
🔌 API
💳 Fintech
₿ Crypto
API • Fintech • Crypto
Alpaca is a fintech company that provides a comprehensive brokerage and trading platform through a suite of APIs. These APIs enable developers and businesses to integrate algorithmic trading, app development, and embedded investing into their services. Alpaca offers services like trading in US stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency with options for local currency transactions. The company is recognized for its cyber security practices and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. Alpaca is ideal for fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services looking to build sophisticated trading applications and platforms with minimal friction through their well-documented Broker API.
Senior Software Development Engineer – Test
🕒 December 16, 2025
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Alpaca
201 - 500 employees
🔌 API
💳 Fintech
₿ Crypto
API • Fintech • Crypto
Alpaca is a fintech company that provides a comprehensive brokerage and trading platform through a suite of APIs. These APIs enable developers and businesses to integrate algorithmic trading, app development, and embedded investing into their services. Alpaca offers services like trading in US stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency with options for local currency transactions. The company is recognized for its cyber security practices and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. Alpaca is ideal for fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services looking to build sophisticated trading applications and platforms with minimal friction through their well-documented Broker API.
📋 Description
• Responsible for improving the automated and manual testing infrastructure at Alpaca - helping our developers quickly and reliably deliver new features. • Develop a comprehensive testing strategy for our API surface. • Improve developer experience by standardizing tooling and infrastructure. • Coordinate with other teams to improve test coverage, reliability and speed. • Mentor and guide product engineers, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement within the team. • Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests to ensure our platform can handle growing user demands.
🎯 Requirements
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or Senior Quality Assurance Engineer. • Written code in strongly typed languages before and have at least 1 year of experience with Go. • Built and maintained CI pipelines before - we use a mix of GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build pipelines. • Worked with microservices and understand the challenges they pose for building reliable integrations and end-to-end tests. • Experience designing and building automated test frameworks. • Familiar with Kubernetes beyond the basics - can write a Helm chart for a new service with relative ease, understand best practices around security, and have prior job experience or certifications. • Worked at a startup - understand that things don’t always go according to plan, that there is significant technical debt, and that some tasks just need to be done. • Not afraid of taking a task from start to finish - gathering requirements, figuring out and implementing the best technical solution, then deploying and monitoring the results.
🏖️ Benefits
• Competitive Salary & Stock Options • Health Benefits • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
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