Crypto Trading Backend Engineer – Scalable Systems
Alpaca
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Job summary
Alpaca Crypto team is seeking a Software Engineer to architect and maintain the systems powering Alpaca's crypto exchange and wallet services, supporting millions of users trading billions of dollars.
You will collaborate with a cross-functional team to deliver scalable backend and market data services, participate in code reviews, and help shape the technical direction of our platform. We value ownership, testing discipline, and a bias for action.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in building high-throughput, low-latency financial systems.
- Experience in crypto development and crypto wallet/services.
- Backend software development with 4+ years of experience.
- Proficiency in Go, C, or C++ (Go preferred).
- Experience with messaging queues and brokers.
- SQL/relational databases experience.
- Hands-on Bash, Linux, and Docker; Kubernetes a plus.
- Motivated to contribute to Alpaca's growth.
Responsibilities
- Design, architect, and maintain Alpaca's crypto exchange and market-making systems.
- Develop crypto wallet, funding, and tokenization services.
- Implement backend services and web applications.
- Maintain code quality and test coverage.
- Participate in code reviews.
- Troubleshoot incidents and bugs.
- Possible on-call support for time-sensitive projects.
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Job description
Alpaca Crypto team is seeking a Software Engineer to architect and maintain the systems powering Alpaca's crypto exchange and wallet services, supporting millions of users trading billions of dollars.
You will collaborate with a cross-functional team to deliver scalable backend and market data services, participate in code reviews, and help shape the technical direction of our platform. We value ownership, testing discipline, and a bias for action.
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