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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 Alpaca's algo trading platform to satisfy users expectations • Design and architect the platform by wearing different hats in a small team • Write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our customers • Requires deep knowledge in frontend and backend, databases and distributed systems • Experience from low to high level in CPU-level hardware for high throughput, robust concurrency system design • Object-oriented data modeling with long term growth in mind • Join an early stage startup with highly demanding environment and significant payoff

🎯 Requirements

• Strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience is preferred • Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python • Low latency and high throughput optimization • Experience with messaging queues and message brokers • Analytical data-oriented mindset and skills • Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems and concurrency control • System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction • Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS)

🏖️ 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