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Senior Software Engineer - Core Trading

1 month, 1 week ago
Remote
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
C C++ Docker GCP Go Java Kubernetes Microservices Python Rust Scala System Design Zig
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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
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Description

  • Build Alpaca’s algo trading platform to deliver high quality and high performance for brokerage users.
  • Design and architect the platform within a small, early-stage team environment.
  • Write substantial production code across the frontend and backend of the system.
  • Make critical technical decisions that shape the customer experience and platform direction.
  • Develop solutions for high-throughput, low-latency trading infrastructure.
  • Design and implement scalable distributed systems with high availability and robust concurrency.
  • Model data and services with long-term growth and maintainability in mind.
  • Work on order management and risk management system implementation.
  • Collaborate across system layers, including databases, messaging, and infrastructure components.

Requirements

  • Previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems such as OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, or quant trading.
  • Strong software engineering background, with lead experience preferred.
  • Coding experience in low- and high-level languages such as C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, or Python.
  • Experience optimizing for low latency and high throughput.
  • Experience with messaging queues and message brokers.
  • Strong analytical, data-oriented mindset.
  • Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low-latency systems, and concurrency control.
  • System design experience with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, and system abstraction.
  • Experience developing and implementing Order Management Systems (OMS) and Risk Management Systems (RMS).
  • Algo trading experience, professional or personal, is a nice-to-have.
  • FIX protocol knowledge is a nice-to-have.
  • Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling, and benchmarking is a nice-to-have.
  • Financial market knowledge such as exchanges, broker-dealers, or clearing 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, especially GCP, is a nice-to-have.
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a nice-to-have.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with stock options.
  • Health benefits.
  • One-time USD $500 home-office setup stipend for new hires.
  • Monthly USD $150 stipend via Brex card.

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