Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Alpaca's growing team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to building and scaling mission-critical tax systems. You will design, build, and operate highly scalable and secure microservices, model complex tax reporting logic, and implement data pipelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide technical leadership, and ensure auditability and traceability of systems. The role requires expertise in Golang, distributed systems, and microservices architecture. Alpaca offers competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, a new hire home-office setup, and a monthly stipend.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems in production
• Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library
• Demonstrable experience in designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including a strong understanding of microservices architecture and API design patterns (e.g., REST, gRPC)
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex requirements into clear technical components and excellent communication skills for working in a cross-functional environment

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly scalable, resilient, and secure microservices and data processing systems using idiomatic Golang
• Model complex, long-running tax reporting business logic as durable, stateful workflows using Temporal to ensure correctness and reliability
• Implement and optimize data pipelines consuming financial events from Redpanda, ensuring data quality, timeliness, and integrity
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of tax analysts, legal experts, and product managers to translate complex and evolving regulatory requirements into robust, maintainable, and verifiable software solutions
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, driving best practices in distributed system design, API definition with gRPC, code quality, and advanced testing strategies
• Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first-class concern to ensure transparency for our auditors and regulators
• Own the full lifecycle of your services, including automated deployment (CI/CD with tools like Jenkins and Terraform), proactive monitoring, and incident response, following a "you build it, you run it" philosophy

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Temporal or similar durable execution systems like Cadence or AWS Step Functions
• Experience with Redpanda or Apache Kafka , with a solid understanding of the Kafka protocol
• Production experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)
• Proficiency with AWS , containerization ( Docker , Kubernetes ), Infrastructure as Code ( Terraform ), and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins)
• Experience with modern observability tools like Prometheus , Grafana , and distributed tracing systems
• Prior experience in FinTech , RegTech , or another highly regulated industry with familiarity with financial data or compliance systems

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card