Alpaca
Alpaca
Alpaca is a fintech company building API-driven infrastructure for investing and brokerage services. Its platform supports algorithmic trading, embedded investing, and financial application development, with access to U.S. stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency, including options for local-currency transactions. Alpaca serves fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services organizations that want to develop trading products through documented APIs, including its Broker API. The company also highlights cybersecurity and operates as a FINRA and SIPC member.

Senior Software Engineer, New Markets — Remote in the United Kingdom

Build scalable brokerage infrastructure at Alpaca, an agent-first provider of global brokerage technology. Work across Go services, React tools, and financial platforms supporting multiple markets.

Description

  • Architect scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems
  • Build and improve middle- and back-office platforms, including gRPC microservices, React interfaces, and third-party integrations
  • Evolve the core framework to support additional languages, currencies, and markets
  • Coordinate with technology leads across regions through synchronous and asynchronous collaboration
  • Investigate incidents and resolve reported defects to preserve system reliability and performance
  • Address regulatory requirements while developing scalable capabilities for international expansion
  • Provide on-call support for time-sensitive engineering initiatives
  • Contribute to regional hiring, cross-functional programs, mentoring, and company culture
  • Lead operational reliability and engineering response, including incident command during regional business hours

Requirements

  • Apply strong problem-solving ability with a proactive approach
  • Bring professional experience with Go or a comparable backend language and the design of reliable, efficient architectures
  • Communicate effectively with distributed teams, regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders
  • Take ownership as an incident commander and direct incident or defect troubleshooting
  • Demonstrate solid computer science fundamentals and practical software architecture experience
  • Work autonomously under pressure within a fully remote, globally distributed organization
  • Connect technical decisions to broader business strategy
  • Have experience designing event-driven systems

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options
  • Health benefits
  • One-time USD $500 home-office setup allowance for new hires
  • USD $150 monthly stipend provided through a Brex Card

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