2 months ago
Remote, EMEASenior
Responsibilities
- Own software projects from ideation through deployment.
- Design and build systems that enable new products, integrations, and revenue opportunities.
- Improve existing clearing and securities finance systems with meaningful, tangible outcomes.
- Support infrastructure for offerings such as Fully Paid Securities Lending.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and improve system reliability by eliminating recurring issues.
- Collaborate with colleagues across teams and influence technical and operational decisions.
Requirements
- Have at least five years of hands-on experience building reliable and distributed systems.
- Be productive with Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.
- Have foundational knowledge of computer systems, the internet, databases, and distributed systems.
- Be able to design effective RESTful APIs and identify problematic API designs.
- Demonstrate ownership, attention to detail, sound judgment, and willingness to lead projects.
- Be interested in traditional financial markets and take responsibility for systems handling entrusted funds.
- Startup experience is required by the posting.
- Experience with securities clearing and settlement or securities finance is preferred.
- Experience with gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Grafana, Kafka or Redpanda, Helm, and Docker is preferred.
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 team is globally distributed, with members working from locations around the world.
- Participation in an on-call rotation is required.
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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.