Senior Software Engineer – Market Data

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Responsibilities

• ▹Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca's market data systems
• ▹Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems
• ▹Focus obsessively on latency, where every nanosecond counts
• ▹Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matter
• ▹Maintain software quality and test coverage
• ▹Participate in code reviews
• ▹Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
• ▹Take on-call rotations to support engineering projects as needed

Requirements

• ▹At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
• ▹Experience with compiled imperative languages such as Go, C, C++ or Rust (most critical services are written in Go)
• ▹SQL or relational database skills
• ▹Deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure and orchestration practices

About the company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto and fixed income, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with over 10 million brokerage accounts; it is backed by $400 million in funding and has a globally distributed team spanning the US, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK and more.