Senior Backend Engineer, New Markets — Remote & Mentorship

Alpaca; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Health benefits

Home-office stipend

Monthly remote work allowance

Job summary

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. We are a diverse, globally distributed team of 400+ members backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors.

Alpaca is hiring a senior backend engineer to design and maintain mission-critical brokerage systems and microservices, leveraging Go and event-driven designs.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go (Golang) and backend services.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous systems.
• Experience leading teams and incident response in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain mission-critical brokerage systems and microservices.
• Lead regional engineering initiatives, mentor talent, and act as incident commander.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Event-driven design

Backend development

Incident command / leadership

Remote work

Job description

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. We are a diverse, globally distributed team of 400+ members backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors.

Alpaca is hiring a senior backend engineer to design and maintain mission-critical brokerage systems and microservices, leveraging Go and event-driven designs.