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Senior Software Engineer - Clearing & Securities Finance

Alpaca· Engineering
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Remote$90k - $180kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer responsible for building and scaling Alpaca's clearing and settlements platform, enabling self-clearing and reliable end-to-end financial infrastructure for millions of users and trillions in assets.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on
  • Work on self-clearing and help us join the elite club of self-clearing brokers
  • Implement backend services and design architectures where reliability matters
  • Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions
  • Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights for scalable and reliable systems
  • Collaborate with other teams to improve system interactions and overall Alpaca infrastructure
  • Maintain good software quality and test coverage
  • Participate in code reviews
  • Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
  • Potential on-call support for timely engineering projects

Qualifications

  • Strong problem-solving skills with proactive mindset
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Preference for simple and elegant solutions
  • At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
  • Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
  • Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
  • Ability to write clean, well tested, and maintainable code
  • Experience with domain driven design and event driven design
  • Ability to debug issues or anticipate problems
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes
  • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
  • Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
  • Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL

Skills

Required:GoPostgreSQLKafkagRPC

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • Health benefits start on day 1 (US Medical, Dental, Vision; Canada supplemental health care; International stipend for medical costs)
  • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Alpaca

API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform

Alpaca is an API infrastructure and licensed financial services company that allows developers and businesses to offer stock and crypto investing to their end-customers. We work with more than 100 companies across the globe to enable their investing products, and our mission is to provide financial services to everyone on the planet. Alpaca’s globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage business specialists and backed by a group of well-capitalized investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Unbound, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Y Combinator as well as highly experienced industry angel investors and founders. We are also very tech-enthusiastic with notable track records in open-source and startup communities.

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