Senior Software Engineer - Platform
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Job Description
Who We Are:
Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and selfclearing brokerdealer delivering 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 brokerdealers investment advisors hedge funds and crypto exchanges.
Alpacas 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 opensource contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our awardwinning developerfriendly API and the infrastructure behind it.
Our Team Members:
Were 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!
Were looking for candidates eager to join Alpacas 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 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 APIs structure. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developerfirst 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 Alpacas systems
- Design a highly scalable missioncritical 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 oncall to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
Who You Are (MustHaves):
- 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 mediumscale 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 NicetoHaves):
- 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. In Japan you are offered local benefits. Internationally this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.
- New Hire HomeOffice Setup: Onetime 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
