Senior Software Engineer - New Markets

Overview

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24 / 5 trading, and more. Our recent Series C funding round brings total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Alpaca is licensed as a financial services company serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs, including broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 6 million brokerage accounts. Our global team of engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals is driven by the mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are committed to open-source contributions and a developer-friendly API and robust infrastructure.

Alpaca is backed by global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team — We are 230+ globally distributed members across the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond. We seek passionate individuals who align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to contribute to Alpaca’s rapid growth.

Your Role

Senior Engineer : you will design, implement, and maintain the systems and services that form Alpaca’s foundation and empower millions of users trading billions of dollars in assets. You will lead regional recruitment initiatives, guide cross-functional projects, mentor engineers, and foster Alpaca culture in the region. As the lead, you will ensure operational reliability and serve as incident commander during regional business hours to support 24x7 stability.

This role seeks an experienced full-stack engineer committed to delivering seamless, high-quality software solutions. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of designing and building scalable applications, and is comfortable challenging conventions and advocating for innovative solutions. You will architect and implement solutions that meet strategic objectives and collaborate with a cross-functional team on goal setting.

Things You Get To Do

• Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.
• Develop and enhance middle and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI for internal administration and API developers, and third-party vendor integrations.
• Work with Alpaca’s core teams to transform the core framework, enabling support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
• Collaborate with regional tech leads, synchronize with global teams via Slack and occasional meetings outside regular hours.
• Troubleshoot incidents and bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
• Support Alpaca’s international growth by navigating regulatory requirements in a global environment.
• May be on-call to assist with timely engineering projects.

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Alpaca is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.

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