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Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer - Identity

Alpaca

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USD 100.000 - 170.000

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Hace 3 días
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Descripción de la vacante

Alpaca, a fast-growing fintech company, is seeking a Senior or Staff Software Engineer focused on identity systems. In this role, you'll build scalable services for identity verification, working in a collaborative environment with a globally distributed team. You will leverage your experience with microservices, cloud platforms, and coding in Go to enhance the Alpaca platform and ensure reliability for users. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.

Servicios

Health benefits starting on day 1
One-time home-office setup stipend of $500
Monthly stipend of $150

Formación

  • At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale.
  • Strong coding skills, preferably in Go.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, especially Google Cloud Platform.

Responsabilidades

  • Contribute to a core system relied on by millions of users.
  • Implement backend services with reliability in mind.
  • Take ownership of tasks and propose innovative solutions.

Conocimientos

Problem-solving
Communication
Collaboration
Coding in Go
Microservices
Domain-driven design
Containerization
Debugging

Herramientas

Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform
PostgreSQL

Descripción del empleo

Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer - Identity

This range is provided by Alpaca. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

100,000.00 / yr - $170,000.00 / yr

Who We Are

Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding.\ Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services.

Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open-source contributions as well as community building.

The Alpaca Team

We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company.

Your Role

As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.

The identity team is responsible for building a modern platform for onboarding users, verifying their identity, evaluating risk, and managing their trading accounts. These persons, businesses and accounts are foundational components of the Alpaca system, and we need to build new capabilities while achieving very high automation rates. We are expanding the platform to handle identity verification on a global basis, and to support our growing set of account types.

We are looking for senior engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals. An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices are also great assets we actively look for.

Things You Get To Do

  • 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

Who You Are (Must-Haves)

  • 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

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves)

  • 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

How We Take Care Of You

  • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • Benefits : Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. 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

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

Recruitment Privacy Policy Seniority level

  • Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment type Full-time

Job function

  • Job function Engineering and Information Technology

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