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Senior Software Engineer - Clearing

Remote: 
Full Remote
Salary: 
2 - 2K yearly
Experience: 
Mid-level (2-5 years)
Work from: 

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Strong coding skills, preferably in Go., At least 3 years of experience on scalable systems., Experience with microservices and cloud platforms., Understanding of domain-driven and event-driven design..

Key responsabilities:

  • Build modern clearing and settlements platform.
  • Implement backend services with reliability.
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Alpaca Financial Services Scaleup https://alpaca.markets/
201 - 500 Employees
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Job description

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding.
Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services.
Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contributions as well as community building.

The Alpaca Team:

We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company.

Your Role:

As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form Alpaca's foundation and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.

The clearing team is responsible for building a modern clearing and settlements platform. Alpaca participates in a market where over two trillion dollars worth of equities need to be cleared and settled daily. We are tackling the industry with a modern approach to building highly scalable, event-driven systems where resilient engineering, scale, and performance can have critical advantages. 

We have exciting plans for the team. Self-clearing is just the first step in building end-to-end financial infrastructure as we continue to prove ourselves as innovative market leaders and a core component of our growth across global markets and asset classes.

We are looking for senior engineers keen on providing quality solutions, with great fundamentals, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and fearlessness in challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in determining those goals. An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices is also a great asset we are actively looking for.

Things You Get To Do:
  • 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 work on designing an architecture where reliability matters
  • Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions
  • Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems
  • Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general
  • Maintain good software quality and test coverage
  • Participate in code reviews
  • Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
  • You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
  • Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • The ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • A 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, better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
  • 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
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):  
  • Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of clearing and settlement processes
  • Experience with DTCC integration
  • Experience working remotely
  • Experience working at a startup
  • DevOps mindset is an asset
How We Take Care of You:
  • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care.  Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.   
  • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
  • Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world

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

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Experience

Level of experience: Mid-level (2-5 years)
Industry :
Financial Services
Spoken language(s):
English
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Other Skills

  • Teamwork
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving

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