Senior Software Engineer – Market Data

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🏈 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

• Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems • Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems • Optimize for extremely low latency • Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matter • Maintain software quality and test coverage • Participate in code reviews • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs • Potentially participate in on-call support for timely engineering projects • Build and scale systems and services underlying Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure • Improve architecture and developer-first APIs for stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange market data, including streaming and historical endpoints • Plan, ideate, experiment, and put new services and libraries into production

🎯 Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale • Experience with at least compiled imperative languages (e.g. Go, C, C++, Rust, etc.); most critical services are written in Go • SQL or relational database skills • Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP networking • Proficient with Linux/BSD and shell scripting • Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams • Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems; primarily Kubernetes via GKE • Experience with major cloud platforms; primarily GCP • Passion for financial markets • Excited about what Alpaca is building • Nice-to-haves: market data, microservice architectures, clean code principles, DevOps, cloud networking (BGP, VPC peering), low-latency applications, distributed key-value stores, CI/CD, Agile/Scrum, observability, tracing, continuous profiling, capacity planning, and benchmarking

🏖️ 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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