Senior Software Engineer – New Markets

🕒 April 1

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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 a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system. • Develop and enhance the middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI for internal administration and API developers, and third-party vendor integrations. • Work closely with Alpaca's core teams to enhance and transform the core framework, enabling support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets. • Collaborate with tech leads in other regions both synchronously and asynchronously, using Slack and occasional meetings outside of regular working hours to align with global teams. • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance. • Thrive in a global environment, effectively navigating regulatory requirements and building scalable solutions to support Alpaca's international growth. • You may be asked to be on-call to assist with timely engineering projects.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience in the financial services industry, specifically with online trading platforms, brokerage systems, or fintech companies. • Proven experience in designing and developing complex financial systems, preferably including double-entry accounting. • Understanding of financial transaction processing, trade lifecycle management, and settlement processes. • Strong experience with online trading systems, including order management, execution, market data processing, and real-time trade processing. • Experience in building scalable, high-availability financial applications that handle multi-currency transactions. • Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets. • Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures. • Experience working with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes. • Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders. • Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience • Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed team, and under pressure in a fast-paced environment. • Strategic thinking and the ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies. • Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design. • Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset. • Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority.

🏖️ 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