Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Broker API (Partner-Facing Application)
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Overview
Join Alpaca as a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to design and maintain systems for a leading brokerage platform. Work remotely in a dynamic team and contribute to innovative solutions in the financial services sector. Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 9 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
Your Role
As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.
Things You Get To Do
- •Take ownership of high-visibility, high-impact initiatives with autonomy and accountability.
- •Work across domains to build features end to end, gaining exposure to the full spectrum of Alpaca’s infrastructure.
- •Stay deeply connected to the needs of our partners, building tools that streamline workflows and reduce manual effort.
- •Play a key role in helping our partners succeed providing world-class customer support.
- •Drive architectural design conversations, helping shape scalable, intuitive, and reliable systems.
- •Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions.
- •Opportunity to contribute to API design and product features within our ecosystem.
- •A unique opportunity to mentor other developers and contribute to the overall technical strategy of our company.
How We Take Care of You
- •Competitive Salary & Stock Options.
- •Health Benefits.
- •New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500.
- •Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card.
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
Who You Are (Must-Haves)
- •5+ years of experience in full-stack development with TypeScript/React.
- •Proficient in TypeScript and React.
- •Proficient in at least one modern systems programming language like Golang or C#.
- •Proficient in HTML and CSS frameworks such as TailwindCSS.
- •Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- •Ability to collect and translate stakeholder requirements into fully realized features.
- •Proven track record of building user-facing features end-to-end.
- •Passionate about creating intuitive and performance user interfaces.
- •Experience with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
- •Experience with REST APIs and best practices.
- •Attention to detail and an appreciation for design aesthetics.