2 months ago
Remote, EMEASenior
Responsibilities
- Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems.
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems with a focus on latency, scalability, and resilience.
- Implement backend services and lead architecture efforts.
- Maintain software quality and test coverage.
- Participate in code reviews.
- Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs.
- Participate in on-call support for timely engineering projects when needed.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale.
- Experience with at least one compiled imperative language such as Go, C, C++, or Rust.
- SQL or relational database skills.
- Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP networking.
- Proficiency with Linux or BSD and shell scripting.
- A proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale, multi-team projects.
- Experience with Kubernetes or another workload orchestration and scheduling system.
- Experience with major cloud platforms, especially GCP.
- A passion for financial markets.
- Nice-to-have experience includes market data, low-latency applications, distributed key-value stores, cloud networking, observability, tracing, continuous profiling, capacity planning, and benchmarking.
- Knowledge of microservice architectures, clean code principles, CI/CD, and Agile/Scrum methodologies is advantageous.
Benefits
- Health benefits.
- One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup.
- USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
- Globally distributed work environment.
About Alpaca
Alpaca builds brokerage infrastructure APIs and operates a self-clearing broker-dealer, enabling fintechs, institutions, and developers to embed trading in stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income. Its platform includes account opening, clearing, custody, and compliance tooling, with revenue from brokerage and platform fees. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Alpaca serves clients in 40+ countries through its subsidiaries.