Software Engineer building optimization, routing, and demand - forecasting systems for RideCo’s cloud - based on - demand transit software. Developing scalable production services and data science models.
About the role
- Senior Software Engineer designing low-latency, scalable market data systems for Alpaca’s global brokerage infrastructure. Building APIs and backend services for stocks, options, crypto, and FX.
Responsibilities
- Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems
- Optimize for extremely low latency
- Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matter
- Maintain software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
- Potentially participate in on-call support for timely engineering projects
- Build and scale systems and services underlying Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure
- Improve architecture and developer-first APIs for stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange market data, including streaming and historical endpoints
- Plan, ideate, experiment, and put new services and libraries into production
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Experience with at least compiled imperative languages (e.g. Go, C, C++, Rust, etc.); most critical services are written in Go
- SQL or relational database skills
- Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP networking
- Proficient with Linux/BSD and shell scripting
- Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
- Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems; primarily Kubernetes via GKE
- Experience with major cloud platforms; primarily GCP
- Passion for financial markets
- Excited about what Alpaca is building
- Nice-to-haves: market data, microservice architectures, clean code principles, DevOps, cloud networking (BGP, VPC peering), low-latency applications, distributed key-value stores, CI/CD, Agile/Scrum, observability, tracing, continuous profiling, capacity planning, and benchmarking
Benefits
- 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
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