Senior Software Engineer — Market Data & Low-Latency

Alpaca; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Stock Options

Health Benefits

Home-Office setup

Monthly stipend

Job summary

Alpaca is seeking a senior/staff software engineer to help build and scale market data systems that power millions of users trading billions of dollars in assets.

You will work on the data platform, APIs, and libraries, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and developer experience. Join a distributed global team and shape how Alpaca delivers market data across stocks, options, crypto, and FX.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
• Strong interest in financial markets
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca's market data systems
• Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems
• Obsess over latency and performance
• Implement backend services and lead architecture for scalability and resilience
• Maintain code quality and test coverage
• Participate in code reviews
• Troubleshoot incidents and bugs
• Potentially be on-call for timely engineering projects

Tools

Go

C

C++

Rust

Kubernetes (GKE)

GCP

SQL

Linux

Job description

Alpaca is seeking a senior/staff software engineer to help build and scale market data systems that power millions of users trading billions of dollars in assets.

You will work on the data platform, APIs, and libraries, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and developer experience. Join a distributed global team and shape how Alpaca delivers market data across stocks, options, crypto, and FX.