Senior Software Engineer, Advisory Platform (Low Latency)

Alpaca; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpaca in the United States is seeking an experienced software engineer to help build our proprietary services for high-performance trading platforms (Block Trading, Portfolio management, IRA, etc.).

You will design and implement scalable backend and frontend components, work across order management and market data interfaces, and optimize for low latency and throughput using C/C++, Go, Rust, Java, Python, and related technologies.

Qualifications

• System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction (must have).
• Senior experience preferred with deep backend/frontend knowledge and high throughput focus.
• Proficiency in multiple languages: C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python (must have).
• Experience with low latency optimization and distributed systems design.
• Familiarity with messaging queues/brokers and concurrency control.
• Knowledge of order management systems (OMS/EMS) or high-load financial transactional systems.

Skills

System design

Senior engineer

C/C++

Go

Rust

Python

Distributed systems

Low latency

Messaging systems

OMS/EMS knowledge

Job description

Alpaca in the United States is seeking an experienced software engineer to help build our proprietary services for high-performance trading platforms (Block Trading, Portfolio management, IRA, etc.).

You will design and implement scalable backend and frontend components, work across order management and market data interfaces, and optimize for low latency and throughput using C/C++, Go, Rust, Java, Python, and related technologies.