Senior Software Engineer – Agent Developer Platform

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform 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

• Design and build Alpaca’s agent-facing developer platform: MCP servers, tools, skills, and the APIs behind them • Evolve the platform as the MCP protocol and connector, plugin, and skill standards change • Build new APIs that make trading and account capabilities available to apps and agents • Decide which components the platform renders, enabling developers and partners to build apps faster from shared building blocks • Keep Alpaca’s execution model current with the MCP protocol and connector, plugin, and skill standards, translating changes into the developer platform’s application architecture • Own production reliability and quality for the services built • Mentor engineers and raise the quality of design and implementation • Lead through architecture, code, design reviews, and mentorship while partnering with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Platform Engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with ownership of production systems that other developers use • Shipped a developer-facing API, SDK, or platform as a primary contributor • Enough MCP architecture to work with stateless and stateful behavior, and experience building to MCP, or to connector, plugin, or skill standards, as they have changed in production • Strong API design, including schemas, compatibility, and responses other developers can rely on • Proficiency in Python or TypeScript, and a willingness to work primarily in Go • Strong architectural judgment, with a record of shipping while requirements are still being defined • Clear communication with engineers, product, compliance, and risk partners

🏖️ 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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