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 platform team is responsible for improving Alpacas overall internal architecture and overseeing the public API’s structure. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and tasked with building, ideating, experimenting, and productionize new services, internal tooling and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly,

We are looking for senior or staff+ engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX, such as operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.

Things You Get To Do:

Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s systems
Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.
Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts)
Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matter.
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 in nature

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
Experience with at least compiled imperative languages (ex: Go, C, C++, Rust, Zig) or functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Scala). Most of our critical services are written in Go
SQL or relational database skills
Familiarity with message brokers and message queues
Proficient with Linux/BSD, shell scripting.
Excited about what we are building at Alpaca
Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (we primarily use Kubernetes via GKE)
Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
A passion for financial markets

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

Knowledge of microservice architectures
Knowledge of clean code principles
DevOps mindset is an asset
Networking experience (BGP, VPC peering, TCP/UDP)
Experience with distributed Key Value stores
Experience with CI/CD
A passion for financial markets or the desire to learn
Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling
Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking
Knowledge of eBPF

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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