Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Alpaca, a fast-growing fintech company, as a Senior Engineer. You will design, implement, and maintain core systems impacting millions of users and billions of dollars in assets. The role involves collaborating with various teams to deliver high-impact features, building scalable backend systems, and owning projects from design to deployment. We seek an experienced engineer with a passion for defect-free solutions and a proven track record of building at scale. This position offers autonomy, the opportunity to define goals, and a chance to work with a globally distributed team. Alpaca provides competitive compensation, stock options, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• A seasoned engineer with 5+ years of experience working on systems at scale
• Obsessed with performant, defect-free, maintainable code
• A strong problem solver with a proactive mindset
• A collaborator who is capable of creating alignment with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
• Comfortable working heads-down or tag-teaming problems
• Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
• Ability to debug issues or, better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
• Experience with IDLs (e.g., protobuf), RPC frameworks (e.g., gRPC), cloud platforms (e.g., GCP), and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders–including finance, operations, and product teams–to deliver high-impact features/projects
• Build backend systems/components with integrity, maintainability, scalability, and stability in mind
• Own the delivery of high-visibility features/projects, from design to deployment
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve the health of Alpaca’s systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the financial services or accounting industry
• Experience with distributed systems/databases
• Experience with event-driven systems and messaging brokers (e.g., Redpanda)
• Experience working remotely
• Experience working at a startup

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