3 months ago
Remote, APACStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems for the Japan market.
- Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, REST and gRPC APIs, and Japan-specific third-party vendor integrations.
- Enhance Alpaca’s core framework to support multiple languages, currencies, markets, and Japan-specific requirements.
- Collaborate with regional tech leads and global core teams through synchronous and asynchronous communication.
- Coordinate in Japanese with local regulators, vendors, partners, and business stakeholders and translate requirements into technical specifications.
- Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
- Participate in on-call rotations and address production issues during Japan business hours.
- Mentor teammates on engineering principles and practices and contribute to Japan-region engineering culture.
- Contribute to regional recruitment initiatives and cross-functional team projects.
- Support proactive 24x7 platform stability through regional operational reliability engineering.
Requirements
- Native or JLPT N1-level Japanese fluency with professional reading, writing, and communication skills is required.
- Business-level English fluency is required for meetings, design discussions, code reviews, and documentation.
- Proven experience designing and developing complex financial systems, preferably including double-entry accounting, is required.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, ledger structures, and transaction reconciliation is required.
- Experience building scalable, highly available financial applications handling multi-currency transactions is required.
- Familiarity with financial-market regulatory compliance is required, with Japan-related experience such as FIEA, FSA, JSDA, or JIPF preferred.
- Proficiency in at least one statically typed language such as Go, Rust, Java, Kotlin, C#, Scala, or C++ is required.
- Experience with financial APIs, market-data integrations, and trade-settlement processes is required.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and software architecture experience are required.
- Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design is required.
- The candidate must be able to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed, fast-paced environment.
- Strategic thinking, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies are required.
- The candidate must be able to lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs during Japan business hours.
- Go proficiency or willingness to ramp up quickly is preferred.
- Experience in Japanese financial services, Japanese market infrastructure such as JPX, JSCC, JASDEC, or major Japanese banks, and Japan-specific products such as NISA, iDeCo, tokutei-koza, or MyNumber is preferred.
- Startup experience, knowledge of emerging technologies, financial-markets interest, vendor-management or organizational-budgeting experience, and experience with global English-speaking teams are preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options are offered.
- Health benefits are provided.
- A one-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup benefit is provided.
- A USD $150 monthly stipend is provided via a Brex Card.
- The role is fully remote in a globally distributed team.
- The position requires JLPT N1 or native-level Japanese fluency and professional English fluency.
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.