14 hours ago
Remote, AmericasMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Build and operate backend systems for securities lending, short borrowing, and related brokerage functionality.
- Develop partner-facing APIs, batch pipelines, integrations, and new product capabilities.
- Own projects from problem definition through production deployment and ongoing support.
- Improve existing systems for scalability, reliability, and operational effectiveness.
- Participate in on-call support and resolve recurring incidents at their root cause.
- Work with securities lending, collateral, settlement, short-selling rules, and brokerage operations.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience building distributed systems that run in production.
- Strong fundamentals in computers, networks, databases, and distributed systems, including failure modes.
- Production proficiency with Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.
- Ability to design effective RESTful APIs and evaluate existing API designs.
- Strong ownership, attention to detail, judgment, curiosity, and willingness to support live systems.
- Preferred experience in securities clearing, securities settlement, or securities finance.
- Preferred familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, Kafka or Redpanda, Grafana, Helm, Docker, and Temporal.
- Preferred experience with daily batch jobs, file-based integrations, reconciliation, broker-dealer operations, Reg SHO, or short-sale rules.
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.
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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.