Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Alpaca, a rapidly growing FinTech brokerage infrastructure technology company, and contribute to building our cutting-edge algo trading platform. As a key member of our engineering team, you will design and architect our platform, writing code and making critical decisions to deliver the best experience for our tech-savvy users. This role requires deep knowledge of frontend and backend development, databases, distributed systems, and low-level hardware optimization. You will leverage your experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading) to build a high-performance, robust platform. The position offers a highly demanding but rewarding environment, similar to joining a company like AWS or Heroku in its early stages. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, including health benefits starting on day one, a new hire home-office setup stipend, and a monthly stipend.

Requirements

• Have previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading)
• Be a strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience
• Possess coding skills in both low and high-level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python
• Have experience with low latency and high throughput optimization
• Have experience with messaging queues and message brokers
• Possess analytical data-oriented mindset and skills
• Have knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems and concurrency control
• Possess system design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction
• Have experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS)

Responsibilities

• Build Alpaca's algo trading platform to satisfy users' expectations for high quality and performance
• Design and architect the platform
• Write code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Have algo trading experience (either professional or personal)
• Have FIX protocol knowledge
• Have experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking
• Have financial market (exchange, broker-dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge
• Have experience with financial ledgers
• Possess statistical and quantitative analysis skills
• Have experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
• Have experience with Docker and Kubernetes

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