Senior Software Engineer – Clearing

🕒 May 5

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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

• Work in a team valuing quality of thinking, excellence in execution, practical solutions, and responsibility • Own projects from ideation to deployment, building what’s necessary, not just what’s asked • Design and build new systems for enabling new products or unlocking more revenue • Refine existing systems to improve them meaningfully • Learn about instrumental things in keeping the financial markets healthy • See behind the curtains of building Alpaca and impact how we do things • Participate in on-call rotation to ensure systems are in tip-top shape

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building reliable and distributed systems • Good foundational knowledge of how computers work, how the internet works, how databases work, how distributed systems behave and misbehave • Productive with the following technologies: Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes • Experience with designing good (RESTful) APIs and spotting bad ones • Deeply interested in how traditional financial markets work • Attention to detail and ability to work collaboratively • Willing to push back in a civilized and productive way • Ability to take the lead on a project and to roll up sleeves if needed. • Knowledge about securities clearing & settlement, securities finance (nice-to-have) • Experience with gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Grafana, Kafka/Redpanda, Helm, Docker (nice-to-have)

🏖️ 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