Senior Software Engineer – Agent Experiences

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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 the application architecture for safe agent execution, from the tool call through to Alpaca’s trading systems. • Design and build account-level policy and guardrails for external agent actions. • Own services that evaluate rules on the path into trading systems. • Define agent-initiated trading actions with engineers responsible for tools and skills. • Keep Alpaca’s execution model current with the MCP protocol and connector, plugin, and skill standards. • Translate protocol and standards changes into account policy, guardrails, and trading actions. • Partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, and the identity platform to define and ship the control model. • Own production reliability for policy and guardrail services. • Review designs across teams and guide technical decisions where agent actions meet brokerage systems. • Mentor engineers and improve design and implementation quality. • Ship the first version hands-on; no direct people management.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, building and operating production backend systems. Evidence of scope and ownership matters more than a strict year count. • Shipped autonomous execution: software that took actions under an explicit policy without a person approving each action, and that rejected or stopped actions outside that policy. • Designed and implemented account-level policy in an application: durable rules for what a caller may do, enforced on the action path, with an audit of the decision. • 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. • Able to define, with Product, Compliance, and Risk, which account rules allow an unattended action. • 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