Who We Are:

Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding.
Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services.
Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contributions as well as community building.

The Alpaca Team:

We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company.

Your Role:

As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form Alpacas foundation and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.

The clearing team is responsible for building a modern clearing and settlements platform. Alpaca participates in a market where over two trillion dollars worth of equities need to be cleared and settled daily. We are tackling the industry with a modern approach to building highly scalable, event-driven systems where resilient engineering, scale, and performance can have critical advantages.

We have exciting plans for the team. Self-clearing is just the first step in building end-to-end financial infrastructure as we continue to prove ourselves as innovative market leaders and a core component of our growth across global markets and asset classes.

We are looking for senior engineers keen on providing quality solutions, with great fundamentals, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and fearlessness in challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in determining those goals. An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices is also a great asset we are actively looking for.

Things You Get To Do:

Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on
Work on self-clearing and help us join the elite club of self-clearing brokers
Implement backend services and work on designing an architecture where reliability matters
Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions
Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems
Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general
Maintain good software quality and test coverage
Participate in code reviews
Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
The ability to work independently and as part of a team
A preference for simple and elegant solutions
At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
Ability to write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code
Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design
Ability to debug issues or, better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
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

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of clearing and settlement processes
Experience with DTCC integration
Experience working remotely
Experience working at a startup
DevOps mindset is an asset

How We Take Care of You:

Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.
New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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