Software Engineer - Market Data

Social Leverage

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

34 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Stock Options

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Job summary

Alpaca, a US-headquartered global brokerage infrastructure leader, seeks a senior software engineer to build scalable market data services that power trading across stocks, ETFs, crypto, and more. You will help shape the architecture and APIs, drive testing, and participate in incident response while operating in a remote-friendly, fast-growing environment.

We value a strong backend background, Docker/Kubernetes familiarity, and a DevOps mindset.

Qualifications

BSc/MSc in Computer Science or related field required.
Minimum 3 years backend software development experience.
Hands-on Docker or Kubernetes experience.
DevOps mindset and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Excited about Alpaca's mission and products.
Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies preferred.

Responsibilities

Design highly scalable, mission-critical market data provider services.
Maintain software quality and test coverage.
Participate in code reviews.
Troubleshoot incidents and bugs.

Skills

Backend development

DevOps mindset

Agile/Scrum

Code reviews

Education

BSc/MSc in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Shell scripting

REST

gRPC

WebSockets

SSE

AWS

GCP

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

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!

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 who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.

The market data team is responsible for improving the overall architecture of Alpaca connected to data products such as stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets. Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and is tasked with planning, ideating, experimenting, and putting into production the new services, and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly.

We are looking for senior or staff engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.

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