Senior Software Engineer – Ledger

🕒 September 1

🌏 Anywhere in the World

⏰ 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

• Design, implement, and maintain systems and services forming the foundation of Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure • Build and maintain the modern ledger system as the source of truth for account activity and transactional data • Collaborate with finance, operations, and product teams to deliver high-impact features and projects • Build backend systems/components with integrity, maintainability, scalability, and stability • Own delivery of high-visibility features/projects from design to deployment • Collaborate with engineering teams to improve the health of Alpaca’s systems • Autonomously design and implement solutions while helping define goals with a cross-functional team

🎯 Requirements

• A seasoned engineer with 5+ years of experience working on systems at scale • Strong coding skills, preferably in Go • Experience with IDLs (e.g., protobuf), RPC frameworks (e.g., gRPC), cloud platforms (e.g., GCP), and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) • Ability to debug issues or foresee problems and avoid them entirely • Experience architecting and building at scale • Ability to create alignment with technical and non-technical stakeholders • Experience in the financial services or accounting industry (nice-to-have) • Experience with distributed systems/databases (nice-to-have) • Experience with event-driven systems and messaging brokers (e.g., Redpanda) (nice-to-have) • Experience working remotely (nice-to-have) • Experience working at a startup (nice-to-have)

🏖️ 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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