Lead Engineer – Crypto

🔥 8 hours ago

🏈 North America – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Lead all crypto-related engineering, including Alpaca's spot and derivatives exchanges licensed in the US and Bahamas • Architect, specify, and build a perpetual futures exchange • Design the high-performance matching engine, collateral/liquidation/risk engine, public API, KYC/AML, regulatory reporting, settlement clearing and custody, banking, order management, accounting, analytics, and compliance integrations • Architect, implement, and maintain systems and services forming the foundation of Alpaca Crypto • Design highly scalable, mission-critical crypto spot and derivatives exchange systems trading millions of dollars from day one • Implement backend services and web applications • Maintain software quality and test coverage • Participate in code reviews • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs • Participate in on-call support for timely engineering projects when requested • Report directly to the Head of Crypto initially, then to the CTO once the product is more mature

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building a CLOB exchange, HFT, market-making, high performance matching engines, margin/liquidation engines or other high-throughput & low-latency, regulated, fault-tolerant financial system • Experience in building crypto • BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field • Minimum 4 years of experience of backend software development • Experience with at least one modern programming language like GoLang, Python, C/C++, NodeJS, Java, etc.; the platform is based in Golang • SQL or relational database skills • Hands-on knowledge with Bash, Linux & Docker • Excitement about what Alpaca is building • Kubernetes experience is a plus • Experience with Kubernetes, CKA, CKAD certification • DevOps mindset is an asset • Experience with NoSQL • Experience with CI/CD • Good understanding of the financial market • Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) • Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies • Knowledge of microservice architectures • Knowledge of clean code principles

🏖️ 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