Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Alpaca, a leading brokerage infrastructure technology company, as a Senior Engineer. You will design, implement, and maintain core systems, lead regional recruitment, mentor engineers, and ensure operational reliability. This role requires a proven track record in building scalable financial applications and strong communication skills to collaborate with global teams. As a full-stack engineer, you will work on a highly scalable brokerage system, develop middle and back-office systems, and collaborate with core teams to enhance the framework. You will also troubleshoot incidents and navigate regulatory requirements. Alpaca offers competitive salary, stock options, and comprehensive health benefits starting day one.

Requirements

• Proven experience in designing and developing complex financial systems, preferably including double-entry accounting
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, ledger structures, and transaction reconciliation
• Experience in building scalable, high-availability financial applications that handle multi-currency transactions
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets
• Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures
• Experience working with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes
• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders
• Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed team, and under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Strategic thinking and the ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies
• Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design
• Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
• Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority

Responsibilities

• Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system
• Develop and enhance the middle and back office systems, including gRPC micro services, React-based UI for internal administration and API developers, and third-party vendor integrations
• Work closely with Alpaca’s core teams to enhance and transform the core framework, enabling support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets
• Collaborate with tech leads in other regions both synchronously and asynchronously, using Slack and occasional meetings outside of regular working hours to align with global teams
• Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance
• Thrive in a global environment, effectively navigating regulatory requirements and building scalable solutions to support Alpaca’s international growth
• Be on-call to assist with timely engineering projects
• Lead regional recruitment initiatives
• Lead cross-functional team projects
• Mentor talent with respect to our engineering principles and practices
• Foster Alpaca culture in the region
• Ensure operational reliability engineering and incident commander during regional business hours to ensure proactive 24x7 stability

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the financial service sector
• Experience working in a startup or fast-growing technology company
• Knowledge of emerging technologies
• Experience or passion for financial markets
• Experience managing vendors and organizational budgeting
• Experience working with global teams

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• 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