Remote Senior Software Engineer – Scalable Brokerage

Social Leverage; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Home-office setup

Monthly stipend

Job summary

Alpaca, a US-headquartered brokerage infrastructure provider, is seeking a Senior Engineer to design, implement, and maintain its core systems and services that empower millions of users trading billions of dollars in assets. You will mentor regional engineers, lead incident response, and collaborate with cross-functional teams globally.

The role emphasizes delivering scalable, high-availability financial applications with multi-currency support, and requires independent work in a fully remote,

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages.
• Experience as incident commander and leading troubleshooting.
• Strong CS fundamentals and software architecture experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Alpaca's infrastructure.
• Mentor regional engineers and support cross-functional projects.
• Lead operational reliability and act as incident commander.
• Support recruitment initiatives in the region.
• Collaborate with global teams to enable multi-language, multi-currency support.
• Troubleshoot incidents and bugs to maintain performance.

Skills

Go

Incident management

System architecture

Communication

Problem solving

Distributed systems

Event-driven design

Tools

gRPC

React

Microservices

API development

Job description

Alpaca, a US-headquartered brokerage infrastructure provider, is seeking a Senior Engineer to design, implement, and maintain its core systems and services that empower millions of users trading billions of dollars in assets. You will mentor regional engineers, lead incident response, and collaborate with cross-functional teams globally.

The role emphasizes delivering scalable, high-availability financial applications with multi-currency support, and requires independent work in a fully remote,