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Senior Software Engineer - New Markets

4 weeks, 1 day ago
Canada
Full-time
Senior
Backend Engineer
Software Development
Go gRPC Microservices React
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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

  • Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.
  • Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based internal administration UI, and third-party vendor integrations.
  • Work with Alpaca’s core teams to improve the core framework and expand support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
  • Collaborate with tech leads in other regions synchronously and asynchronously to align on global initiatives.
  • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
  • Serve as the operational reliability and engineering lead and act as incident commander during regional business hours.
  • Lead cross-functional team projects and mentor talent on engineering principles and practices.
  • Support Alpaca’s regional recruitment initiatives and foster company culture in the region.
  • Be available for on-call support for timely engineering projects.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in the financial services industry, especially with online trading platforms, brokerage systems, or fintech companies.
  • Proven experience designing and developing complex financial systems, preferably including double-entry accounting.
  • Understanding of financial transaction processing, trade lifecycle management, and settlement processes.
  • Strong experience with online trading systems, including order management, execution, market data processing, and real-time trade processing.
  • Experience building scalable, high-availability financial applications that handle multi-currency transactions.
  • Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets.
  • Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages.
  • Experience working with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes.
  • Strong communication skills for working with global teams, regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and software engineering architecture experience.
  • Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed team and under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strategic thinking and the ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies.
  • Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset.
  • Ability to act as incident commander and lead troubleshooting efforts.
  • Experience working in a startup or fast-growing technology company (preferred).
  • Knowledge of emerging technologies (preferred).
  • Experience or passion for financial markets (preferred).
  • Experience managing vendors and organizational budgeting (preferred).
  • Experience working with global teams (preferred).

Benefits

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

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