Senior Software Engineer – Market Data

🕒 August 5

🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 24%

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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

• Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems • Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems • Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts) • Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matters • Maintain good software quality and test coverage • Participate in code reviews • Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs • May be asked to be on-call to assist with timely engineering projects • Build and scale systems and services foundational to Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure • Improve architecture for market data products including stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange • Oversee public API structure and documentation for streaming and historical endpoints • Plan, ideate, experiment, and productionize new services and libraries

🎯 Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale • Experience with at least compiled imperative languages such as Go, C, C++, or Rust; most critical services use Go • SQL or relational database skills • Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP networking • Proficient with Linux/BSD and shell scripting • Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams • Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems; Alpaca primarily uses Kubernetes via GKE • Experience with major cloud platforms; Alpaca primarily uses GCP • Passion for financial markets • Experience with market data, microservice architectures, clean code principles, cloud networking, low-latency applications, distributed key-value stores, CI/CD, observability, tracing, continuous profiling, capacity planning, or benchmarking are nice-to-haves • Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies is a nice-to-have • DevOps mindset is an asset

🏖️ 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