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

Financials

51-250 (167)

Founded 2015

$87M raised

43 open positions

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Senior Software Engineer - New Markets

1 hour ago

Canada

Full-time

Senior

Backend Engineer

Software Development

Go gRPC Microservices React

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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

View All Jobs 43

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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