Senior Software Engineer – Payments

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🇺🇸 United States – 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

• Build and scale systems and services forming the foundation of Alpaca's brokerage infrastructure • Build and maintain a modern global payments and treasury platform • Develop highly scalable, event-driven systems for critical money movement • Design and implement resilient, technically and operationally scalable solutions • Help build an integrated treasury platform within global financial infrastructure • Autonomously design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals • Participate in defining team and engineering goals • Contribute to systems supporting millions of users trading billions of dollars in assets daily

🎯 Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Ability to work independently and as part of a team • Preference for simple and elegant solutions • At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale • Proven experience building and maintaining microservices • Experience with client-facing APIs • Strong coding skills, preferably in Go • Ability to write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code • Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design • Ability to debug issues or foresee and avoid problems • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform • Experience with messaging queues and message brokers • Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL • Experience with distributed systems design • Previous experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle • Experience with double-entry accounting and financial ledgers • Nice-to-have: previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of payment initiations • Nice-to-have: experience with financial reconciliation systems • Nice-to-have: experience with or understanding of ISO 20022 financial standard • Nice-to-have: experience working remotely • Nice-to-have: experience at a startup, exchange, brokerage, market maker, or hedge fund • DevOps mindset is an asset

🏖️ 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