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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 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.