Senior Software Engineer New Markets - UK Remote

About the Position

Senior Software Engineer New Markets - UK Remote

Remote - UK

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About the Company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

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Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form Alpaca's foundation and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.
• Regional recruitment initiatives, supporting cross-functional team projects, mentoring talent on our engineering principles and practices, and fostering Alpaca culture in the region.
• Serving as the operational reliability and engineering lead and the incident commander during regional business hours, ensuring proactive 24x7 stability.
• Designing a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.
• Developing and enhancing the middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI for internal administration and API developers, and third-party vendor integrations.
• Collaborating with Alpaca's core teams to enhance and transform the core framework, enabling support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
• Collaborating with tech leads in other regions both synchronously and asynchronously, using Slack and occasional meetings outside of regular working hours to align with global teams.
• Troubleshooting incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
• Thriving in a global environment, effectively navigating regulatory requirements and building scalable solutions to support Alpaca's international growth.
• Being on-call to assist with timely engineering projects.

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Requirements

• Must-Haves:

  • Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset.
  • Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures.
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
  • Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority.
  • 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 event-driven design.

• Nice-to-Haves:

  • Experience with AI tooling such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex or others.
  • Experience working in a startup or fast-growing technology company.
  • Knowledge of emerging technologies.
  • Experience with domain-driven design.
  • Experience working with global teams.
  • Experience in the financial services industry, specifically with online trading platforms, brokerage systems, or fintech companies.
  • Experience in designing and developing complex financial systems, preferably 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.
  • Experience working with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes.
  • Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets.

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We Offer

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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