Senior Software Engineer New Markets

About the role

As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form Alpaca's foundation. You will serve as an operational reliability and engineering lead, mentoring talent and fostering company culture while ensuring proactive system stability.

Responsibilities

• Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.
• Develop and enhance the middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI, and third-party vendor integrations.
• Work closely with core teams to enhance and transform the core framework, enabling support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
• Collaborate with tech leads in other regions to align with global teams.
• Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
• Navigate regulatory requirements and build scalable solutions to support international growth.
• Participate in on-call rotations to assist with engineering projects.

Required skills

• Go
• System architecture
• Incident management
• Computer science fundamentals
• Event-driven design

Nice to have

• AI tooling
• Domain-driven design
• Financial services
• Double-entry accounting
• Trade lifecycle management
• Market data processing

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Stock Options
• Health Benefits
• Home-Office Setup
• Monthly Stipend

About the Company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. Serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries, the company is backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors.