5 hours ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical market-data provider services.
- Build and productionize services and libraries for Alpaca’s streaming and historical market-data APIs.
- Maintain software quality and test coverage.
- Participate in code reviews.
- Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs.
Requirements
- BSc/MSc in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least three years of backend software development experience.
- Hands-on experience with Docker or Kubernetes.
- Understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.
- Experience with large datasets, SQL, IP networking, financial markets, or a major cloud platform is beneficial.
- Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD are a plus.
- Experience with shell scripting, Linux, Docker, and microservice architectures is beneficial.
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
- Global distributed work environment
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.