Alpaca
Senior Software Engineer - Trading
Remote - Americas · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 hours ago
PythonJavaGoRustC++ScalaDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesSpark
About the role
- This opportunity is similar to joining AWS or Heroku in their early days, designing and architecting our platform by wearing many different hats in our small team.
- As an experienced engineer, you will write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our customers.
- Joining an early stage startup, the payoff to this highly demanding environment will be worth the effort.
Requirements
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems and concurrency control
- Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS)
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking
- Experience with financial ledgers
Skills
- Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python
- Analytical data-oriented mindset and skills
- Statistical and quantitative analysis skills
Compensation
- USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Benefits
- Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Company info
- 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, totalling 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.
- Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
- Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and 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, totalling 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.
- Our Team Members:
- We're a dynamic team of 380+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!
- We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth.
- If you align with our core values-Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable-and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Equal opportunity
- Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
- equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
This listing is sourced directly from Alpaca's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.