Senior Fullstack Engineer - Operational Automations

Social Leverage; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and stock options

New Hire Home-Office Setup: USD 500

Monthly Stipend: USD 150 via Brex Card

Job summary

Alpaca is seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer to embed within operational automation teams. You will design, build, test, deploy, and monitor automations and UIs that remove manual steps and improve efficiency and reliability across brokerage operations.

You will work with frontend and platform engineers to productize ops tooling, implement robust CI/CD, and own the full lifecycle of the systems you build, including on-call rotations and incident response.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping and operating complex systems in production.
• Strong business sense and understanding of operations.
• Deep, hands-on Golang expertise with concurrency models and standard library.
• Proven ability to build user-facing features end-to-end with TypeScript/React.
• Proficient with SQL and PostgreSQL.
• Ability to reason about human workflows as systems and communicate across teams.
• Experience with observability, tracing, and continuous profiling.

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 baseline and outcome metrics; iterate based on impact.
• Produce Platform Opportunity Briefs / RFCs for platform tooling and automations.
• Collaborate with BD leadership, Compliance, and Security for auditable automations.
• Own full lifecycle of built systems including CI/CD with ArgoCD and Terraform, on-call rotations, and incident response.
• Build systems with auditability and data lineage for regulatory transparency.

Skills

Golang

Typescript/React

SQL/PostgreSQL

Observability/Tracing

Distributed systems

On-call/Incident response

Operations mindset

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD

Job description

Senior Fullstack Engineer - Operational Automations

As an 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

How We Take Care of You:

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.