Senior Software Engineer - Payments & Treasury

September 17

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Alpaca

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Description

•As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca •The payments team is responsible for building and maintaining a modern global payments and treasury platform •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 •We are looking for senior engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions •An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices are also great assets we actively look for

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 start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs. •New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 •Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card •Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world