Senior Software Engineer, Alpaca

• 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
• An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices is also a great asset we are actively looking for
• 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

Desirable

• 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
• In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in determining those goals
• 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