Software Engineer - Market Data at Alpaca

Alpaca

Italia

In loco

EUR 60.000 - 100.000

Tempo pieno

6 giorni fa

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Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Stock options

Health benefits

New hire home-office setup

Monthly stipend

Descrizione del lavoro

Alpaca, a US-headquartered, global leader in brokerage infrastructure, is seeking a senior software engineer to design and scale market data services on-site in Italy. You will influence the core API, data products across stocks, crypto, and FX, and help drive architectural decisions that empower millions of traders.

Join a hands-on team using Go, Python, Docker and Kubernetes to deliver reliable systems, support incident response, and mentor peers.

Competenze

BSc/MSc in Computer Science or related field.
Minimum 3 years backend software development experience.
Hands-on experience with Docker or Kubernetes.
DevOps mindset and familiarity with Agile/Scrum.
Passion for Alpaca's mission and growth.

Mansioni

Design highly scalable, mission-critical market data provider services.
Maintain good software quality and test coverage.
Participate in code reviews and incident troubleshooting.

Conoscenze

Python REST

Docker

Kubernetes

gRPC

WebSockets

REST API

Prometheus

Linux

POSIX

Formazione

BSc/MSc CS

Strumenti

GKE

BigTable

Grafana

ELK

Git

Descrizione del lavoro

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact,

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 market data team is responsible for improving the overall architecture of Alpaca connected to data products such as stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets. Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and is tasked with planning, ideating, experimenting, and putting into production the new services, and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly. We are looking for senior or staff engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.

Things You Get To Do: