Senior Software Engineer - Tax Platform

• •Design, build, and operate highly scalable, resilient, and secure microservices and data processing systems using idiomatic Golang.
• •Model complex, long-running tax reporting business logic as durable, stateful workflows using Temporal to ensure correctness and reliability.
• •Implement and optimize data pipelines consuming financial events from Redpanda, ensuring data quality, timeliness, and integrity.
• •Collaborate with cross-functional teams of tax analysts, legal experts, and product managers to translate complex and evolving regulatory requirements into robust, maintainable, and verifiable software solutions.
• •Provide technical leadership and mentorship, driving best practices in distributed system design, API definition with gRPC, code quality, and advanced testing strategies.
• •Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first-class concern to ensure transparency for our auditors and regulators.
• •Own the full lifecycle of your services, including automated deployment (CI/CD with tools like Jenkins and Terraform), proactive monitoring, and incident response, following a "you build it, you run it" philosophy.

• •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.

• •5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems in production.
• •Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library.
• •Demonstrable experience in designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including a strong understanding of microservices architecture and API design patterns (e.g., REST, gRPC).
• •Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex requirements into clear technical components and excellent communication skills for working in a cross-functional environment.

• •Hands-on experience with Temporal or similar durable execution systems like Cadence or AWS Step Functions.
• •Experience with Redpanda or Apache Kafka, with a solid understanding of the Kafka protocol.
• •Production experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf).
• •Proficiency with AWS, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins).
• •Experience with modern observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing systems.
• •Prior experience in FinTech, RegTech, or another highly regulated industry with familiarity with financial data or compliance systems.