7 days ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Responsibilities
- Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems.
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems.
- Obsess over latency, ensuring every nanosecond counts.
- Implement backend services and lead architecture focused on scalability and resilience.
- Maintain good software quality and test coverage.
- Participate in code reviews and troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs.
- Be on-call to assist with timely engineering projects.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale.
- Experience with compiled imperative languages such as Go, C, C++, or Rust.
- SQL or relational database skills.
- Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP networking.
- Proficient with Linux/BSD and shell scripting.
- Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects.
- Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration systems.
- Experience with major cloud platforms, primarily GCP.
- A passion for financial markets.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options.
- Health Benefits.
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500.
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card.
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.