Senior Software Engineer - Clearing

1 hour, 18 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Alpaca

Alpaca

Alpaca is a developer-first API for stock and crypto trading, offering easy-to-use APIs for building apps and trading algorithms.

Capital Markets
51-250
Founded 2015
$87M raised

Description

  • Own projects from ideation through deployment, resolving ambiguity and delivering practical solutions.
  • Design and build systems that enable new products and revenue opportunities.
  • Improve existing clearing and securities-finance systems through meaningful, measurable refinements.
  • Develop infrastructure for integrations and new product offerings such as fully paid securities lending.
  • Collaborate with teams across the company and influence technical and operational decisions.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and improve system reliability by eliminating recurring operational issues.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience building reliable, distributed systems.
  • Professional experience with Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.
  • Ability to design high-quality RESTful APIs and identify poor API designs.
  • Strong foundational knowledge of computer systems, networking, databases, and distributed systems.
  • Ability to independently lead projects and take ownership of outcomes.
  • High attention to detail and a strong sense of responsibility when working with financial systems.
  • Interest in traditional financial markets and seriousness about protecting entrusted funds.
  • Experience working in startup environments with changing priorities.
  • Experience with securities clearing, settlement, or securities finance (preferred).
  • Experience with gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Grafana, Kafka/Redpanda, Helm, or Docker (preferred).

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options.
  • Health benefits.
  • One-time $500 new-hire home-office setup allowance.
  • $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
  • Globally distributed work environment.

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