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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

• Build and own frameworks, tooling, and CI/CD infrastructure for Alpaca’s engineers. • Write Go, design automated test frameworks, and work with application code and Kubernetes. • Redefine how AI is used to enhance quality and automate testing coverage. • Design and build automated test frameworks across REST and gRPC API. • Accelerate test generation using AI and LLM-based tooling. • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build. • Conduct load, stress, and scalability tests to ensure platform demand handling. • Introduce chaos engineering practices for resilience experiments. • Standardize tooling and infrastructure for improved developer experience. • Collaborate with teams to raise test coverage, reliability, and speed. • Mentor product engineers to promote a culture of quality and improvement.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer building and maintaining production systems. • Written code in strongly typed languages with at least 1 year of experience with Go. • Fluent with AI-assisted engineering and LLM-based tools. • Built and maintained CI pipelines before, ideally with GitHub Actions or Google Cloud Build. • Designed and built automated test frameworks, understanding challenges microservices pose for testing. • Familiar with Kubernetes beyond the basics, with prior job experience or certifications. • Experience in a startup environment, handling significant technical debt and undefined processes. • Able to take tasks from start to finish, including gathering requirements and implementation.

🏖️ 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