Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Alpaca, a fast-growing fintech company, as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to building and scaling the systems and services powering our global payments and treasury platform. You will design and implement solutions, working independently and collaboratively within a team. This role requires strong problem-solving skills, experience with microservices, and familiarity with cloud platforms. We offer competitive salaries, stock options, and comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, a home-office setup stipend, and a monthly stipend.

Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team
• A preference for simple and elegant solutions
• At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
• Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
• Experience with client facing APIs
• Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
• Ability to write clean, well tested, and maintainable code
• Experience with domain driven design and event driven design
• Ability to debug issues or better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
• Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
• Experience with distributed systems design
• Previous experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle
• Experience with double entry accounting and financial ledgers

Responsibilities

• Help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets daily
• Design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of payments initiations
• Experience with financial reconciliation systems
• Experience with or understanding of ISO20022 financial standard
• Experience working remotely
• Experience working at a startup, exchange, brokerage, market maker, or hedge fund
• DevOps mindset is an asset

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
• Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world