Senior Software Engineer New Markets (Fully Remote)

Alpaca

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 200,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Health benefits

Home-office stipend

Monthly remote work allowance

Job summary

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. We are a diverse, globally distributed team of 400+ members backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors.

Alpaca is hiring a senior backend engineer to design and maintain mission-critical brokerage systems and microservices, leveraging Go and event-driven designs.

Qualifications

Proficiency in Go (Golang) and backend services.
Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous systems.
Experience leading teams and incident response in production environments.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain mission-critical brokerage systems and microservices.
Lead regional engineering initiatives, mentor talent, and act as incident commander.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Event-driven design

Backend development

Incident command / leadership

Remote work

Job description

Alpaca builds agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income.
We are a global team of 400+ members backed by $400 million in funding.

Your Role:

Design and maintain mission-critical brokerage systems and microservices.
Lead regional engineering initiatives, mentor talent, and act as incident commander.

Who You Are: