Senior Software Engineer - Ledger

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including finance, operations and product teams, to deliver high-impact features and projects
• ▹Build backend systems and components with integrity, maintainability, scalability and stability in mind
• ▹Own the delivery of high-visibility features and projects, from design to deployment
• ▹Collaborate with engineering teams to improve the health of Alpaca's systems
• ▹Actively take part in defining goals with a cross-functional team

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience working on systems at scale
• ▹Commitment to performant, defect-free, maintainable code
• ▹Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
• ▹Ability to debug issues or, better yet, foresee and avoid problems
• ▹Experience with IDLs (e.g. protobuf), RPC frameworks (e.g. gRPC), cloud platforms (e.g. GCP) and relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL)

Nice to have

• ▹Experience in the financial services or accounting industry
• ▹Experience with distributed systems and databases
• ▹Experience with event-driven systems and messaging brokers (e.g. Redpanda)
• ▹Experience working remotely
• ▹Experience working at a startup

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive salary and stock options
• ▹Health benefits
• ▹One-time USD 500 home-office setup
• ▹Monthly USD 150 stipend via a Brex card

About the company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global provider of brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto and more. It is a licensed financial services company serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries through its APIs, with over 10 million brokerage accounts. Its 400+ person team works remotely around the world and is committed to open source.