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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

• As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets daily. • The payments team is responsible for building and maintaining a modern global payments and treasury platform. Operating in an industry in which money movement is a critical component, we adopt a modern technology focused approach with highly scalable, event-driven systems. • We have ambitious plans to build a seamlessly integrated comprehensive treasury platform into an industry leading end-to-end financial infrastructure on a global scale.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • The 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 • Experience with client facing APIs • 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 messaging queues and message brokers • Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL • Experience with distributed systems design • Previous experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle • Experience with double entry accounting and financial ledgers

🏖️ 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