Senior Software Engineer, Core Trading Platform

Alpaca; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health benefits

Home-office setup $500

Monthly stipend $150 via Brex Card

Job summary

Alpaca, a US-headquartered, global leader in broker‑age infrastructure, is seeking an experienced software engineer to build and scale its algo trading platform. You will design and implement across frontend, backend, databases, and distributed systems to deliver high‑quality, high‑throughput experiences for millions of brokerage accounts.

Joining an early‑stage startup with strong cloud, container, and observability practices, you will influence architecture, performance optimizations, and

Qualifications

• Seasoned software engineer with leadership experience.
• Proficient in Go and C/C++ with low-latency optimization.
• Experience with messaging queues and brokers.
• Strong data-driven, analytical mindset.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, scalability, and availability.
• System design skills including OO data modeling and SOA architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build Alpaca's algo trading platform to deliver high performance.
• Write substantial code across frontend and backend, networks and databases.
• Make critical architectural decisions to ensure reliability and scale.

Skills

Lead experience

Go

C/C++

Low latency

Messaging queues

Data analytics

Distributed systems

Concurrency control

High availability

Databases

System design

OO data modeling

SOA

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Alpaca, a US-headquartered, global leader in broker‑age infrastructure, is seeking an experienced software engineer to build and scale its algo trading platform. You will design and implement across frontend, backend, databases, and distributed systems to deliver high‑quality, high‑throughput experiences for millions of brokerage accounts.

Joining an early‑stage startup with strong cloud, container, and observability practices, you will influence architecture, performance optimizations, and