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

Description

  • Design, build, and maintain crypto exchange and market-making systems.
  • Develop crypto wallet, funding, and tokenization services.
  • Implement backend services and web applications.
  • Maintain software quality and test coverage.
  • Participate in code reviews.
  • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs.
  • Provide on-call support for time-sensitive engineering projects when needed.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of trading systems and experience building exchanges, market-making systems, matching engines, or other high-throughput, low-latency, regulated, fault-tolerant financial systems.
  • Experience building crypto products or services.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 4 years of backend software development experience.
  • Experience with a modern programming language such as Go, C, or C++; the platform is based on Go.
  • Experience with messaging queues and message brokers.
  • SQL and relational database skills.
  • Hands-on experience with Bash, Linux, and Docker.
  • Preferred: Kubernetes experience or CKA/CKAD certification.
  • Preferred: DevOps, CI/CD, cloud platforms, Agile/Scrum, microservices, clean-code principles, and financial markets experience.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options.
  • Health benefits.
  • One-time $500 home-office setup allowance for new hires.
  • $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.

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