Senior Software Engineer - New Markets

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!Full-TimeSenior

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Required Skills: GogRPCReact

Requirements

Proven experience in the financial services industry, specifically with online trading platforms, brokerage systems, or fintech companies.
Proven experience in designing and developing complex financial systems, including double-entry accounting.
Understanding of financial transaction processing, trade lifecycle management, and settlement processes.
Strong experience with online trading systems, including order management, execution, market data processing, and real-time trade processing.
Experience in building scalable, high-availability financial applications that handle multi-currency transactions.
Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets.
Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures.
Experience working with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes.
Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience.
Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed team, and under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
Strategic thinking and the ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies.
Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design.
Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset.
Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain the systems and services that form Alpaca's foundation.
Empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.
Lead regional recruitment initiatives and cross-functional team projects.
Mentor talent on engineering principles and practices and foster Alpaca culture in the region.
Serve as the operational reliability and engineering lead and the incident commander during regional business hours.
Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.
Develop and enhance the middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI, and third-party vendor integrations.
Work closely with Alpaca's core teams to enhance and transform the core framework.
Collaborate with tech leads in other regions both synchronously and asynchronously.
Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
Navigate regulatory requirements and build scalable solutions to support Alpaca's international growth.
Be on-call to assist with timely engineering projects.

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