Senior Software Engineer - Clearing (Fully Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health benefits

Home-office setup $500

Brex Card monthly $150 stipend

Job summary

Alpaca, a US-headquartered broker-dealer infrastructure provider, is hiring to work on what happens after a trade—clearing and settlement for US equities and options. You will build and refine mission-critical systems that power day-to-day operations and enable new product offerings through integrations.

Join a 400+ distributed team with a culture of curiosity, accountability, and impact. The role offers competitive pay, stock options, health benefits, and a $500 home-office setup plus a $150

Qualifications

• Deeply interested in how traditional financial markets work.
• Lead projects from ideation to deployment, cutting through ambiguity.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building reliable distributed systems with Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Work on what happens after the trade is made, focusing on clearing and settlement for US equities and options.
• Build and refine systems that are essential to the day-to-day operations of a broker-dealer.
• Collaborate with the team to enable new product offerings through integrations.

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Job description

• Work on what happens after the trade is made, focusing on clearing and settlement for US equities and options.
• Build and refine systems that are essential to the day-to-day operations of a broker-dealer.
• Collaborate with the team to enable new product offerings through integrations.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• Deeply interested in how traditional financial markets work and take responsibility for systems people entrust with their money.
• Can lead projects from ideation to deployment, cutting through ambiguity.
• Have 5+ years of hands-on experience building reliable distributed systems with Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.

How We Take Care of You:

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Health benefits and a one-time $500 home-office setup.
• Monthly $150 stipend via a Brex Card.

Alpaca

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and more, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries. The team is a dynamic group of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from their favorite places around the world, with a culture valuing curiosity, empathy, and accountability.