Software Engineer – Crypto

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 24%

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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

• Design, build, and maintain Alpaca’s crypto exchange and market-making systems • Develop crypto wallet, funding, and tokenization services • Implement backend services and web applications • Maintain good software quality and test coverage • Participate in code reviews • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs • May be asked to be on-call to assist with timely engineering projects • Architect, implement, and maintain systems and services forming the foundation of Alpaca Crypto • Autonomously design and implement solutions while participating in defining goals with a cross-functional team

🎯 Requirements

• Knowledge of trading systems and experience building exchanges, market-making systems, matching engines, or other high-throughput, low-latency, regulated, fault-tolerant financial systems • Experience in building crypto • BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field • Minimum 4 years of experience of backend software development • Experience with at least one modern programming language like GoLang, C/C++ etc.; the platform is based in Golang • Experience with messaging queues and message brokers • SQL or relational database skills • Hands-on knowledge with Bash, Linux & Docker • Experience with Kubernetes, CKA, CKAD certification, DevOps, CI/CD, major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), Agile/Scrum, microservice architectures, and clean code principles are nice-to-haves

🏖️ 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