Senior Software Engineer – Identity

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Alpaca

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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

• Build and scale systems and services forming Alpaca's foundation • Build a global financial identity verification and risk management service • Implement backend services and design reliable architecture • Take ownership of tasks, proactively address technical challenges, and propose innovative solutions • Contribute to architectural decisions for scalable and reliable systems • Collaborate with other teams to improve system interactions and Alpaca systems • Maintain software quality and test coverage • Participate in code reviews • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs • Participate in on-call support for timely engineering projects when requested

🎯 Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset • Ability to turn business requirements into a flexible implementation model • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Ability to work independently and as part of a team • A preference for simple and elegant solutions • At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale • Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices • Strong coding skills, preferably in Go • Ability to write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code • Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design • Ability to debug issues or, better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform • Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL

🏖️ 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