Senior Software Engineer

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Alpaca

📍Remote - Japan

Summary

Join Alpaca, a global brokerage infrastructure technology company, as a Backend Engineer specializing in building a modern ledger system for the Japanese market. This fully remote role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining core systems impacting millions of users. You will collaborate with global teams, internal stakeholders, and contribute to high-impact projects. The ideal candidate possesses strong Go or Java coding skills, system design expertise, and fluency in Japanese and conversational English. Alpaca offers competitive salaries, stock options, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

  • Fluent in business-level Japanese (including reading and writing) and conversational English (capable of using chat to communicate with global teams)
  • System design skills with object-oriented data modelling, service-oriented architectures, and system abstraction
  • Dedicated with performant, defect-free, maintainable code
  • A strong problem solver with a proactive mindset
  • A team player who can effectively coordinate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Comfortable working heads-down or tag-teaming problems
  • Strong coding skills around Go, Java
  • 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 global teams to improve the health of Alpaca’s systems

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in the financial services (preferably in Japan) or accounting industry
  • Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with distributed systems/databases
  • Experience with event-driven systems
  • 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. In Japan, you are offered local benefits. 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

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