Senior Software Engineer – Tax Platform

🕒 May 14

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💰 Tax

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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, build, and operate highly scalable, resilient, and secure microservices and data processing systems using idiomatic Golang. • Model complex, long-running tax reporting business logic as durable, stateful workflows using Temporal to ensure correctness and reliability. • Implement and optimize data pipelines consuming financial events from Redpanda, ensuring data quality, timeliness, and integrity. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams of tax analysts, legal experts, and product managers to translate complex and evolving regulatory requirements into robust, maintainable, and verifiable software solutions. • Provide technical leadership and mentorship, driving best practices in distributed system design, API definition with gRPC, code quality, and advanced testing strategies. • Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first-class concern to ensure transparency for our auditors and regulators. • Own the full lifecycle of your services, including automated deployment (CI/CD with tools like Jenkins and Terraform), proactive monitoring, and incident response, following a "you build it, you run it" philosophy.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems in production. • Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library. • Demonstrable experience in designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including a strong understanding of microservices architecture and API design patterns (e.g., REST, gRPC). • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex requirements into clear technical components and excellent communication skills for working in a cross-functional environment.

🏖️ 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