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Overview
Join Alpaca as a Senior Software Engineer to design and maintain systems for a leading brokerage platform. Work remotely and contribute to innovative solutions in a globally distributed team. Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. 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 10 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.
What you'll do
- •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.
Conditions
- •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.