Alpaca
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.
Staff Software Engineer, Risk and Margin
November 12
Alpaca
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
• Own the architecture, design, and technical roadmap of the risk and margin platform. • Lead initiatives on low-latency optimizations, deterministic performance, and resiliency. • Guide integration with exchanges and liquidity venues (FIX, OUCH, ITCH, proprietary APIs) at scale. • Establish best practices for high-frequency trading system development (testing, monitoring, incident response). • Partner with risk and compliance teams to embed real-time pre-trade risk, credit, and margin controls. • Act as a multiplier: mentor engineers, perform design reviews, and elevate engineering standards. • Lead architecture discussions and long-term system design for scalability and resilience. • Drive cross-team projects that impact multiple trading desks (e.g., global order routing, fault-tolerant market data infra). • Proactively identify scalability bottlenecks and lead refactoring/redesign initiatives. • Serve as a technical point of escalation for production trading issues.
🎯 Requirements
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in trading, fintech, or distributed systems • Deep expertise in Go, C++, or Java, with a track record of building low-latency, high-throughput systems • Strong foundation in operating systems internals, networking, and concurrency • Demonstrated experience with architecture & system design for trading systems • Strong knowledge of messaging, storage, and distributed computation frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, Aerospike) • Experience leading large-scale migrations/refactors in production-critical environments • Proven track record of mentorship and technical leadership across multiple teams.
🏖️ 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
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