Senior Software Engineer - Payments & Treasury
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Overview
Alpaca is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale their payments and treasury platform. Join a diverse team dedicated to innovating financial services globally. 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.
What you'll do
As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets daily. The payments team is responsible for building and maintaining a modern global payments and treasury platform. Operating in an industry in which money movement is a critical component, we adopt a modern technology focused approach with highly scalable, event-driven systems. Resilient engineering, technical and operational scalability, and system integrity are crucial to our success. We have ambitious plans to build a seamlessly integrated comprehensive treasury platform into an industry leading end-to-end financial infrastructure on a global scale.
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.
Must-Haves
- •Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
- •Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- •The ability to work independently and as part of a team
- •A preference for simple and elegant solutions
- •At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
- •Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
- •Experience with client facing APIs
- •Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
- •Ability to write clean, well tested, and maintainable code
- •Experience with domain driven design and event driven design
- •Ability to debug issues or better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
- •Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes
- •Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
- •Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- •Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- •Experience with distributed systems design
- •Previous experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle
- •Experience with double entry accounting and financial ledgers
Nice-to-Haves
- •Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of payments initiations
- •Experience with financial reconciliation systems
- •Experience with or understanding of ISO20022 financial standard
- •Experience working remotely
- •Experience working at a startup, exchange, brokerage, market maker, or hedge fund
- •DevOps mindset is an asset