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Responsibilities
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems.
- Develop middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, React-based interfaces, and third-party vendor integrations.
- Enhance core frameworks to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
- Collaborate with engineering leads across global regions.
- Troubleshoot incidents and bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
- Serve as regional operational reliability and engineering lead and act as incident commander.
- Support regional recruitment initiatives, cross-functional projects, mentoring, and engineering culture.
- Participate in on-call support for timely engineering projects when needed.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages and robust system architecture design.
- 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 problem-solving, communication, strategic thinking, and independent execution skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fully remote, globally distributed, fast-paced environment.
- Preferred experience with AI tooling such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex.
- Preferred experience with domain-driven design, global teams, startups, or fast-growing technology companies.
- Preferred financial services experience, especially with online trading platforms, brokerage systems, or fintech.
- Preferred experience with complex financial systems, double-entry accounting, transaction processing, trade lifecycle management, settlement, order management, execution, market data, and real-time trade processing.
- Preferred experience building high-availability, multi-currency financial applications and integrating financial APIs and market data.
- Familiarity with financial-market regulatory compliance requirements is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup.
- USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
- Fully remote work in a globally distributed team.
- Occasional meetings outside regular working hours and potential on-call support are part of the role.
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About Alpaca
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, self-clearing broker-dealer and a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto. Alpaca delivers embeddable finance solutions for tokenization, fully paid securities lending, high-yield cash, 24/5 trading, Shariah-compliant investing, and more. Today, Alpaca powers over 9 million brokerage accounts across hundreds of fintechs and institutions in 40+ countries, with over $320M in funding from top investors including Drive Capital, Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Derayah Financial, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Elefund, and Y Combinator.