Senior Fullstack Engineer - Operational Automations

Alpaca

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health benefits

One-time home-office setup $500

Monthly stipend $150 via Brex Card

Job summary

Alpaca, a US-headquartered broker‑dealer and API company, seeks a Senior Fullstack Engineer to embed in brokerage operations, eliminating manual work through durable software. You will observe workflows end‑to‑end, design automation, and collaborate with licensed staff and platform engineers to scale tooling globally without linear headcount growth.

You will own frontend and backend automation, focusing on robust, auditable systems with CI/CD (ArgoCD, Terraform), on‑call support, and clear

Qualifications

5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong business sense and understanding of operations
Hands-on Golang expertise with concurrency
Proven experience with Typescript/React for end-to-end features
Proficient in SQL and PostgreSQL
Ability to reason about human workflows as systems
Experience with observability and profiling
Excellent cross-functional communication and ownership mindset

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, deploy, and monitor production automations and UIs.
Partner with frontend engineers to productize ops tooling for global teams.
Execute operational procedures to surface manual processes for automation.
Instrument and report metrics and iterate based on impact.
Produce Platform Briefs / RFCs for platform tooling and automations.
Collaborate with Compliance and Security for auditable automations.
Own full lifecycle of systems including CI/CD with ArgoCD and Terraform, on-call rotations, and incident response.
Build systems with auditability, data lineage, and regulatory transparency.

Skills

Golang

Typescript/React

SQL (PostgreSQL)

Observability/Profiling

Distributed systems

On-call/Incident response

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Terraform

Job description

Alpaca is a US‑headquartered self‑clearing broker‑dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

Among our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional‑grade APIs. This includes broker‑dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 9 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are deeply committed to open‑source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award‑winning, developer‑friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by top‑tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

We’re a dynamic team of 380+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond. We’re searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will embed directly within brokerage operations functions to systematically eliminate manual work and replace it with durable, auditable software systems. You start by immersing yourself in operational workflows: observing, documenting, and deeply understanding processes end‑to‑end before designing solutions. Every recurring manual process is treated as a system defect, and every fix you ship is measured by its real‑world impact on efficiency and reliability. You will work closely with licensed brokerage staff, domain experts, and platform engineers to build automations and tooling that allow Alpaca's operations to scale globally without scaling headcount linearly. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable shadowing an operational process and architecting the backend service that replaces it.

Things You Get To Do

Design, build, test, deploy, and monitor production automations and UIs that remove manual steps and reduce operation time.
Partner with frontend engineers to productize ops tooling so global teams can run functions with predictable staffing.
Execute operational procedures to surface painful manual processes prior to automation.
Instrument and report baseline and outcome metrics (MTTC, manual‑steps removed, queue sizes, ops satisfaction) and iterate based on measured impact.
Produce Platform Opportunity Briefs / RFCs for higher‑level platform tooling and automations.
Collaborate with licensed BD leadership, Compliance, and Security to build auditable, safe automations with role‑based access and clear runbooks.
Own the full lifecycle of the systems you build, including automated deployment (CI/CD with tools like ArgoCD and Terraform), proactive monitoring, on‑call support rotations and incident response, following a "you build it, you run it" philosophy.
Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first‑class concern to ensure transparency for our auditors and regulators.

Who You Are (must-haves)

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large‑scale systems in production.
Strong business sense and understanding of operations.
Deep, hands‑on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library.
Proven track record of building user‑facing features end‑to‑end with Typescript/React.
Proficient with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
Demonstrated ability to reason about human workflows as systems, not just software services.
Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling.
Exceptional analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex requirements into clear technical components and excellent communication skills for working in a cross‑functional environment.
High ownership mindset with bias toward durable, structural fixes over tactical patches.

Who You Might Be (nice-to-haves)

Knowledge of service‑oriented architectures.
Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP).
Financial market (exchange, broker‑dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
A passion for financial markets or the desire to learn.
Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Demonstrable experience in designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including a strong understanding of microservices architecture and API design patterns (e.g., REST, gRPC).
Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking.

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