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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 scale the systems and services forming the foundation of Alpaca and empowering millions of users trading assets • Improve Alpaca’s architecture for market data products including stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets • Oversee public API structure and documentation for streaming and historical endpoints • Plan, ideate, experiment, and put new services and libraries into production • Design highly scalable, mission-critical market data provider services • Maintain software quality and test coverage • Participate in code reviews • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs

🎯 Requirements

• BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field • Minimum 3 years of backend software development experience • Hands-on experience with Docker or Kubernetes • DevOps mindset • Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies • Experience building and architecting systems at scale • Deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices • Nice-to-have: experience working with large datasets • Nice-to-have: Kubernetes experience; CKA or CKAD certification is a plus • Nice-to-have: SQL experience • Nice-to-have: IP networking experience • Nice-to-have: understanding of financial markets • Nice-to-have: experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure • Nice-to-have: shell scripting, Linux, and Docker knowledge • Nice-to-have: microservice architectures • Nice-to-have: clean code principles • Tech stack includes GoLang, Python, REST, gRPC, WebSockets, SSE, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Services, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK

🏖️ 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