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Team Lead Engineer - Crypto

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Team Lead Engineer - Crypto in Remote new

  • Americas

Responsibilities

  • Lead all crypto-related engineering for Alpaca’s regulated spot and derivatives exchanges.
  • Architect, specify, and build a perpetual futures exchange with matching, collateral, liquidation, risk, API, KYC/AML, regulatory reporting, settlement, clearing, custody, banking, order management, accounting, analytics, and compliance integrations.
  • Design highly scalable, mission-critical exchange systems supporting high trading volume and low latency.
  • Implement backend services and web applications.
  • Maintain software quality and test coverage and participate in code reviews.
  • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs and provide on-call assistance for timely engineering projects.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define goals and independently design and implement solutions.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of backend software development experience.
  • Experience building a CLOB exchange, HFT, market-making system, high-performance matching engine, margin or liquidation engine, or another high-throughput, low-latency, regulated, fault-tolerant financial system.
  • Experience building crypto systems.
  • BSc, MSc, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Experience with at least one modern programming language such as GoLang, Python, C, C++, NodeJS, or Java; the platform is based in Golang.
  • SQL or relational database skills.
  • Hands-on knowledge of Bash, Linux, and Docker.
  • Preferred qualifications include Kubernetes experience, CKA or CKAD certification, NoSQL experience, CI/CD experience, major cloud platform experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with financial markets, Agile/Scrum, microservice architectures, and clean code principles.
  • The position level and title may vary according to the candidate’s experience and skills.

Benefits

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

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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