Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team

Posted 6 Hours Ago
3 Locations
Remote
Senior level
Fintech • Information Technology
The Role
**As a senior software engineer on the platform team at Alpaca, you will have the opportunity to influence the overall architecture, design highly scalable systems, implement backend services, and maintain software quality.**
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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 the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.

The platform team is responsible for improving the overall internal architecture of Alpaca 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, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and not afraid of challenging conventions. A deep understanding of POSIX like operating systems, modern infrastructure and orchestration practices are also required for this demanding team.

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 matters
  • 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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Top Skills

**Experience With At Least Compiled Imperative Languages (Ex: Go
C
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Erlang
Rust
Scala). Most Of Our Critical Services Are Written In Go**
Zig) Or Functional Languages (Haskell
The Company
San Mateo, CA
132 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Alpaca's mission is to unlock asset management for the people. We are a technology company that modularizes the world’s asset management activities. Alpaca’s products enable anyone to build and connect applications and algorithms to buy and sell stocks with zero commissions. We believe that everyone should have fair access to financial markets, regardless of who we are or where we are from. *Securities are offered through Alpaca Securities LLC (alpaca.markets)*

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