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Software Engineer - Advisory Suite

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Software Engineer - Advisory Suite in Remote

  • Worldwide

Responsibilities

  • Build Alpaca’s proprietary services for advisory products including block trading, portfolio management, and IRA services.
  • Design and architect highly available, scalable, concurrent, low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
  • Write production code across frontend and backend systems, databases, and financial transaction infrastructure.
  • Develop and implement Order Management Systems and other heavily loaded financial transactional systems.
  • Make critical technical decisions focused on customer experience, system performance, and long-term maintainability.

Requirements

  • Previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems, including OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, or quantitative trading.
  • Strong system design skills in object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, and system abstraction.
  • Experienced software engineering background with senior-level experience preferred.
  • Coding ability in low- and high-level languages such as C, C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, and Python.
  • Experience optimizing low-latency and high-throughput systems.
  • Experience with messaging queues and message brokers.
  • Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low-latency systems, and concurrency control.
  • Analytical, data-oriented mindset and experience developing and implementing OMS or highly loaded financial transactional systems.
  • FIX protocol knowledge preferred.
  • Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling, and benchmarking preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options.
  • Health benefits.
  • One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup payment.
  • USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
  • Globally distributed work environment.

Salary: Competitive

Alpaca

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, self-clearing broker-dealer and a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto. Alpaca delivers embeddable finance solutions for tokenization, fully paid securities lending, high-yield cash, 24/5 t...

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