Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Alpaca, a leading brokerage infrastructure technology company, as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to building and scaling the core systems that power our global financial platform. You will play a key role in developing our identity verification and risk management service, working on backend services, and designing a highly reliable architecture. This position requires strong problem-solving skills, experience with microservices, and proficiency in Go. We offer a competitive salary, stock options, and comprehensive health benefits starting on day one, along with a new hire home-office setup and monthly stipend. Alpaca fosters a collaborative and innovative environment with a globally distributed team.

Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
• Ability to turn business requirements into a flexible implementation model
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on
• Help us create a global financial identity verification and risk management service
• Implement backend services and work on designing an architecture where reliability matters
• Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions
• Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems
• Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general
• Maintain good software quality and test coverage
• Participate in code reviews
• Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
• You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the finance industry
• Experience with financial identity management, e.g. KYC
• Experience integrating with external services
• Experience working remotely
• Experience working at a startup
• DevOps mindset is an asset

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