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Responsibilities
- Own projects from ideation through deployment and resolve ambiguity while determining the necessary solution.
- Design and build systems that enable new financial products, integrations, and revenue opportunities.
- Refine and improve existing clearing and securities-finance systems.
- Develop reliable distributed systems supporting post-trade operations and brokerage infrastructure.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and address issues affecting system reliability and team productivity.
- Collaborate with colleagues across teams and contribute to technical and operational decisions.
Requirements
- Have at least 5 years of hands-on experience building reliable and distributed systems.
- Be productive with Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.
- Have strong foundational knowledge of computer systems, the internet, databases, and distributed systems.
- Be able to design good RESTful APIs and identify poor API designs.
- Demonstrate project ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and willingness to lead initiatives.
- Show interest in traditional financial markets; startup experience is expected.
- Preferred experience includes securities clearing and settlement or securities finance.
- Preferred technologies include gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Grafana, Kafka or Redpanda, Helm, and Docker.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup benefit.
- USD $150 monthly stipend through a Brex Card.
- The company has a globally distributed team with members across multiple countries.
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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.