Senior Backend Engineer, Scalable Ledger Systems

Alpaca; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology firm is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Ledger Team to design and maintain systems that empower millions of users in trading. You will collaborate with various teams to deliver impactful features while ensuring the integrity and scalability of backend systems. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience, strong coding abilities, and is proficient in Go and various cloud platforms. This position offers a competitive salary, stock options, and other benefits.

Benefits

Competitive Salary & Stock Options

New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500

Monthly Stipend: USD $150

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working on systems at scale.
• Strong problem solver with a proactive mindset.
• Comfortable working head-down or tag-teaming problems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain core systems for Alpaca.
• Deliver high-impact features and projects.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance system health.

Skills

Coding skills in Go

Problem solving

Collaboration with stakeholders

Experience with RPC frameworks

Debugging skills

Tools

PostgreSQL

gRPC

GCP

protobuf

Job description

A financial technology firm is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Ledger Team to design and maintain systems that empower millions of users in trading. You will collaborate with various teams to deliver impactful features while ensuring the integrity and scalability of backend systems. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience, strong coding abilities, and is proficient in Go and various cloud platforms. This position offers a competitive salary, stock options, and other benefits.