Senior Software Engineer - Trading
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About the Position
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Trading to join our team at Alpaca, a US-headquartered, global leader in brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. This role offers the opportunity to build our algo trading platform, similar to joining AWS or Heroku in their early days. You will be responsible for designing and architecting our platform, wearing many different hats in our small team. This role requires deep knowledge in both frontend and backend, databases and distributed systems, as well as broad experience from low to high level in CPU-level hardware for high throughput, robust concurrency system design, abstract distributed system architecture for high availability, and object-oriented data modeling with long-term growth in mind.
Responsibilities
- Build and enhance Alpaca's algo trading platform
- Write clean, maintainable code
- Make critical decisions to deliver the best experience to our customers
- Collaborate with a diverse, globally distributed team
Requirements
- Strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience preferred
- Coding skills in low and high-level languages such as C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python
- Low latency and high throughput optimization
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Analytical data-oriented mindset and skills
- Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems, and concurrency control
- System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, and system abstraction
- Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS)
Nice to Have
- Algo trading experience (either professional or personal)
- FIX protocol knowledge
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling, and benchmarking
- Financial market (exchange, broker-dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge
- Experience with financial ledgers
- Statistical and quantitative analysis skills
- Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
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
About the Company
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. We serve hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. 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.
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
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