Senior Software Engineer – New Markets

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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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 a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system • Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI, and third-party vendor integrations • Enhance and transform the core framework to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets • Collaborate with tech leads in other regions synchronously and asynchronously • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance • Navigate regulatory requirements and build scalable solutions for international growth • Participate in on-call support for timely engineering projects • Support regional recruitment initiatives, cross-functional projects, talent mentoring, and Alpaca culture • Serve as operational reliability and engineering lead and incident commander during regional business hours

🎯 Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset • Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures • Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders • Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority • Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience • Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed team, and under pressure in a fast-paced environment • Strategic thinking and the ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies • Experience with event-driven design

🏖️ 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