Senior Software Engineer New Markets

Join Alpaca as a Senior Software Engineer to design scalable brokerage systems and enhance financial applications in a fully remote environment.

• •Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.
• •Develop and enhance the middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI for internal administration and API developers, and third-party vendor integrations.
• •Work closely with Alpaca's core teams to enhance and transform the core framework, enabling support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
• •Collaborate with tech leads in other regions both synchronously and asynchronously, using Slack and occasional meetings outside of regular working hours to align with global teams.
• •Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
• •Thrive in a global environment, effectively navigating regulatory requirements and building scalable solutions to support Alpaca's international growth.
• •You may be asked to be on-call to assist with timely engineering projects.

• •Proven experience in the financial services industry, specifically with online trading platforms, brokerage systems, or fintech companies.
• •Proven experience in designing and developing complex financial systems, preferably including double-entry accounting.
• •Understanding of financial transaction processing, trade lifecycle management, and settlement processes.
• •Strong experience with online trading systems, including order management, execution, market data processing, and real-time trade processing.
• •Experience in building scalable, high-availability financial applications that handle multi-currency transactions.
• •Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets.
• •Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures.
• •Experience working with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes.
• •Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• •Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience.
• •Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed team, and under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• •Strategic thinking and the ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies.
• •Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design.
• •Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset.
• •Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority.