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

20 open positions

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Senior Software Engineer - Payments & Treasury

1 hour, 3 minutes ago

Europe

Full-time

Senior

Software Engineer

Software Development

GCP Go Kubernetes Microservices PostgreSQL REST API

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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 20

Description

Build and scale systems and services that support Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure and daily trading activity.
Design and implement solutions for the payments and treasury platform with autonomy and ownership.
Maintain highly scalable, event-driven systems for critical money movement workflows.
Contribute to the design of a globally integrated end-to-end financial infrastructure platform.
Participate in defining goals and technical direction for the team’s roadmap.
Collaborate with teammates to deliver resilient, technically sound, and operationally scalable services.
Develop and maintain microservices and client-facing APIs.
Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code.
Debug issues and help prevent problems through strong engineering practices.
Apply cloud architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices in day-to-day work.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale.
Proven experience building and maintaining microservices.
Experience with client-facing APIs.
Strong coding skills, preferably in Go.
Ability to write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code.
Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design.
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes.
Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with messaging queues and message brokers.
Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
Experience with distributed systems design.
Previous experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle.
Experience with double-entry accounting and financial ledgers.
Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of payment initiations is a plus.
Experience with financial reconciliation systems is preferred.
Experience with or understanding of ISO20022 financial standard is a plus.
Experience working remotely is preferred.
Experience working at a startup, exchange, brokerage, market maker, or hedge fund is a plus.
A DevOps mindset is an asset.
Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Preference for simple and elegant solutions.

Benefits

Competitive salary with stock options.
Health benefits.
New hire home-office setup stipend of USD $500.
Monthly stipend of USD $150 via a Brex Card.

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