Staff Engineer – Team Lead, Market Data

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November 24

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Alpaca

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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.

201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end architecture for the market data suite, ensuring scalability, modularity, and maintainability • Drive technical planning, sprint scoping, and cross-functional alignment with product teams • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, foster engineering best practices • Set and uphold standards for code quality, observability, and performance • Collaborate with leadership on roadmap priorities, and help steer product evolution • Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on • Help us create a global financial identity verification and risk management service • Implement backend services and work on designing an architecture where reliability matters • Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions • Participate in code reviews • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs • You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with 4+ years in a lead role • Proven ability to design and scale complex distributed systems, preferably in Go • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform • Extensive knowledge relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL • Familiarity with TCP/IP, and UDP networking • Proficient with Linux/BSD, and shell scripting • Experience with managing and maintaining large and complex code bases • Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders • Experience managing and mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional projects • Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset • A preference for simple and elegant solutions • Excited about what we are building at Alpaca • Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams • Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (we primarily use Kubernetes via GKE) • A passion for financial markets.

🏖️ 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