Senior Software Engineer – Trading

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🕒 July 21

🇺🇸 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 Alpaca's algorithmic trading platform • Design and architect the brokerage platform in an early-stage startup environment • Write substantial production code and make critical decisions about customer experience • Work across frontend, backend, databases, distributed systems, CPU-level hardware, concurrency, high availability, and object-oriented data modeling • Develop and implement Order Management Systems and Risk Management Systems

🎯 Requirements

• Previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading) • Strong, experienced software engineer; lead experience is preferred • Coding skills in low- and high-level languages, including C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, and Python • Low latency and high throughput optimization • Experience with messaging queues and message brokers • Analytical, data-oriented mindset and skills • Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems, and concurrency control • System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, and system abstraction • Experience developing and implementing Order Management Systems (OMS) and Risk Management Systems (RMS) • FIX protocol knowledge is a nice-to-have • Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling, and benchmarking is a nice-to-have • Financial market knowledge is a nice-to-have • Experience with financial ledgers is a nice-to-have • Statistical and quantitative analysis skills are a nice-to-have • Experience with major cloud platforms, primarily GCP, is a nice-to-have • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a 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