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Software Engineer – Core Trading

🕒 September 16

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Posted on Alpaca's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship September 16

Still open on Alpaca's site. Checked 6 hours ago.

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Alpaca

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 platform for high quality and performance • Write substantial amounts of code across frontend and backend systems • Make critical decisions about delivering the best customer experience • Work with databases, distributed systems, CPU-level hardware, concurrency systems, high-availability architecture, and object-oriented data modeling • Contribute in a demanding early-stage startup environment

🎯 Requirements

• Strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience preferred • Coding skills in both low and high level languages around Go, C/C++ • 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 • Experience with highly scalable distributed low latency systems • System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction • Algo trading experience (either professional or personal) is a nice-to-have • Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS) is a nice-to-have • FIX protocol knowledge is a nice-to-have • Experience with trading or exchange systems 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

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