Who We Are: Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges. Alpaca’s globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are also deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our award-winning developer-friendly API and the infrastructure behind it. Our Team Members: We’re a team of 150+ globally distributed members who love working from our favorite places worldwide. Our team spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and more! We’re looking for candidates eager to join Alpaca’s growing organization, who are excited about our Mission of “Open financial services to everyone on the planet and share our Values of “Stay Curious,” “Have Empathy,” and “Be Accountable.”
Your Role: As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form Alpaca's 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. In Japan, you are offered local benefits. 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
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