Senior Software Engineer - Payments

Social Leverage LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Home-office setup

Monthly stipend

Job summary

Alpaca seeks a senior software engineer to help build and scale the systems behind Alpaca's trading infrastructure. You will work on a payments/treasury platform, enabling billions in daily asset movements and a global, vendor-agnostic architecture.

You will design scalable microservices, rely on Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native patterns, and collaborate across teams to deliver robust, secure solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and operating systems at scale.
• Proven experience with microservices.
• Experience with client-facing APIs and Go programming.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform used in production.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and distributed databases.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and messaging systems.
• Understanding of payment rails and lifecycle.
• Knowledge of domain-driven design and scalable architectures.
• Experience with financial reconciliation or ISO20022 is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the systems and services underpinning Alpaca's platform.
• Contribute to a modern payments/treasury system with scalable, event-driven design.
• Design and implement scalable architectures and autonomous solutions.

Skills

Go

Microservices

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Domain Driven Design

Event-driven design

APIs

Message queues

Tools

Docker

API Management

Job description

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!

We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth.

Your Role

As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets daily .

The payments team is responsible for building and maintaining a modern global payments and treasury platform. Operating in an industry in which money movement is a critical component, we adopt a modern technology focused approach with highly scalable, event-driven systems. Resilient engineering, technical and operational scalability, and system integrity are crucial to our success.

We have ambitious plans to build a seamlessly integrated comprehensive treasury platform into an industry leading end-to-end financial infrastructure on a global scale. Alpaca has and will continue to prove ourselves as an innovative market leader and this team is a core component of our growth across global markets and asset classes.

We are looking for senior engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals.

An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices are also great assets we actively look for.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team
• A preference for simple and elegant solutions
• At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
• Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
• Experience with client facing APIs
• Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
• Ability to write clean, well tested, and maintainable code
• Experience with domain driven design and event driven design
• Ability to debug issues or better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
• Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
• Experience with distributed systems design
• Previous experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle
• Experience with double entry accounting and financial ledgers

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):g Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of payments initiations

• Experience with financial reconciliation systems
• Experience with or understanding of ISO20022 financial standard
• Experience working remotely
• Experience working at a startup, exchange, brokerage, market maker, or hedge fund
• DevOps mindset is an asset

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.

Location Central America, North America, Remote, South America

Work Mode Remote

Seniority Mid-Senior

Function Software Engineering

Company Size 201-500 employees

Skills API Management Cloud Infrastructure Distributed Computing Domain Driven Design Event-Driven Programming Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Go (Programming Language) Kubernetes Microservices Payment Processing PostgreSQL Software Engineering