Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Trading API Architect

Diagram; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

Home-Office Setup

Brex Card stipend

Job summary

Alpaca is hiring a Staff Full Stack Engineer to lead the technical direction of the team behind the Trading API. You will own identity, authentication, authorization, and account models, shipping secure, scalable features across backend services and customer-facing applications.

You will mentor engineers, review designs, and partner with Product, Design, Compliance, and Security to define integration boundaries.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with backend and customer-facing apps.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and technical roadmap for Trading API access and permissions.

Skills

Backend Go

OAuth 2.0

React TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

REST/gRPC

Security

Mentorship

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

REST/gRPC

WebSockets

Identity platforms (Keycloak, Cognito, Auth0)

Job description

Alpaca is hiring a Staff Full Stack Engineer to lead the technical direction of the team behind the Trading API. You will own identity, authentication, authorization, and account models, shipping secure, scalable features across backend services and customer-facing applications.

You will mentor engineers, review designs, and partner with Product, Design, Compliance, and Security to define integration boundaries.