Senior Backend Engineer - Ledger Systems | Stock Options

Ali Aydi; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & Stock Options

New Hire Home-Office Setup: USD 500

Monthly Stipend: USD 150 via Brex Card

Job summary

Alpaca, a US-headquartered broker infrastructure provider, is seeking a Senior Engineer to design, implement, and maintain systems that power millions of users trading billions in assets. The Ledger Team maintains a modern ledger and serves as truth for services across the Alpaca ecosystem.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in distributed systems, strong Go skills, experience with Protobuf/gRPC, and cloud/PostgreSQL.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building systems at scale.
• Strong Go coding skills and low-defect mindset.
• Experience with IDLs such as Protobuf and RPC frameworks like gRPC.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP) and PostgreSQL.
• Excellent collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services.
• Own features from design through deployment.
• Improve health and reliability of Alpaca's systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (finance, product, ops).

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Debugging

Problem solving

Collaboration

5+ years experience

Tools

Protobuf

gRPC

GCP

PostgreSQL

Job description

Alpaca, a US-headquartered broker infrastructure provider, is seeking a Senior Engineer to design, implement, and maintain systems that power millions of users trading billions in assets. The Ledger Team maintains a modern ledger and serves as truth for services across the Alpaca ecosystem.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in distributed systems, strong Go skills, experience with Protobuf/gRPC, and cloud/PostgreSQL.