2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems.
- Develop middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, React-based internal interfaces, and third-party vendor integrations.
- Enhance the core framework to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
- Collaborate with technical leads and core teams across global regions.
- Troubleshoot incidents and bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
- Serve as the regional operational reliability and engineering lead and incident commander during regional business hours.
- Support regional recruitment initiatives, cross-functional projects, engineering mentorship, and local engineering culture.
- Participate in on-call support for engineering projects when requested.
Requirements
- Proficiency with Go or similar backend languages and experience designing robust, efficient system architectures.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience.
- Experience with event-driven design.
- Ability to lead and troubleshoot incidents and bugs as an incident commander.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, strategic thinking, and proactive execution skills.
- Ability to work independently under pressure in a fully remote, globally distributed environment.
- Preferred experience with AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex.
- Preferred experience with startups or fast-growing technology companies, global teams, domain-driven design, and emerging technologies.
- Preferred financial-services experience involving online trading platforms, brokerage systems, fintech, double-entry accounting, transaction processing, trade lifecycles, settlement, order management, execution, market data, financial APIs, regulatory compliance, or multi-currency high-availability applications.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup allowance.
- USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
- Fully remote work in a globally distributed team.
- Occasional meetings outside regular working hours to coordinate with global teams.
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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.