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Senior Software Engineer - Market Data

3 weeks, 4 days ago
Europe
Full-time
Senior
Software Engineer
Software Development
Agile C C++ CI/CD GCP Go Kubernetes Linux Microservices Rust Scrum Shell Scripting SQL TCP/IP
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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

  • Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems.
  • Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems.
  • Build and lead backend services where scalability and resilience are critical.
  • Optimize systems for low latency.
  • Maintain software quality and test coverage.
  • Participate in code reviews.
  • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs.
  • Participate in on-call support for timely engineering projects.
  • Plan, prototype, and productionize new services and libraries to address technical challenges.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale.
  • Experience with compiled imperative languages such as Go, C, C++, or Rust.
  • SQL or relational database skills.
  • Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP networking.
  • Proficiency with Linux/BSD and shell scripting.
  • Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams.
  • Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems; Alpaca primarily uses Kubernetes via GKE.
  • Experience with major cloud platforms; Alpaca primarily uses GCP.
  • Deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.
  • Passion for financial markets.
  • Experience with market data (preferred).
  • Knowledge of microservice architectures (preferred).
  • Knowledge of clean code principles (preferred).
  • Cloud networking experience such as BGP and VPC peering (preferred).
  • Experience building low-latency applications (preferred).
  • Experience with distributed key-value stores (preferred).
  • Experience with CI/CD (preferred).
  • Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies (preferred).
  • Experience with observability, tracing, and continuous profiling (preferred).
  • Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking (preferred).

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with stock options.
  • Health benefits.
  • One-time USD $500 new hire home-office setup.
  • USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.

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