Lead Software Engineer - Low-Latency Trading Platform

Diagram; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Stock Options

Health Benefits

New Hire Home-Office Setup: USD 500

Monthly Stipend: USD 150 per month via

Brex Card

Job summary

Alpaca is seeking an experienced software engineer to build its algo trading platform, delivering top-tier performance and reliability for traders using our APIs.

You will design and implement across frontend and backend layers, work with databases and distributed components, and make architectural decisions in a fast-moving team. This role offers exposure to low-latency systems and scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Lead software engineer with experience in Go/C++ and multi-language stacks.
• Strong background in low-latency, high-throughput systems.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, databases, and architecture.
• Experience with messaging queues and scalable services.

Responsibilities

• Build Alpaca's algo trading platform with high quality and performance.
• Architect and design systems across frontend, backend, and data services.
• Make critical decisions to deliver low-latency, highly available infrastructure.

Skills

Lead experience

Go

C/C++

Low latency

High throughput

Messaging queues

Data analytics

Distributed systems

System design

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Observability tools

Job description

Alpaca is seeking an experienced software engineer to build its algo trading platform, delivering top-tier performance and reliability for traders using our APIs.

You will design and implement across frontend and backend layers, work with databases and distributed components, and make architectural decisions in a fast-moving team. This role offers exposure to low-latency systems and scalable infrastructure.