Backend engineer building AI - powered 3D design review systems for CoLab, which helps mechanical engineering teams bring complex products to market faster. Developing scalable CAD, ML, and rule - based review infrastructure.
About the role
- Senior Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining systems at Alpaca, a financial services firm. Collaborating globally to support high-availability trading solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.
- Develop and enhance the middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI for internal administration and API developers, and third-party vendor integrations.
- Work closely with Alpaca's core teams to enhance and transform the core framework, enabling support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
- Collaborate with tech leads in other regions both synchronously and asynchronously, using Slack and occasional meetings outside of regular working hours to align with global teams.
- Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
- Thrive in a global environment, effectively navigating regulatory requirements and building scalable solutions to support Alpaca's international growth.
- You may be asked to be on-call to assist with timely engineering projects.
Requirements
- Proven experience in the financial services industry, specifically with online trading platforms, brokerage systems, or fintech companies.
- Proven experience in designing and developing complex financial systems, preferably including double-entry accounting.
- Understanding of financial transaction processing, trade lifecycle management, and settlement processes.
- Strong experience with online trading systems, including order management, execution, market data processing, and real-time trade processing.
- Experience in building scalable, high-availability financial applications that handle multi-currency transactions.
- Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets.
- Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures.
- Experience working with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes.
- Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience
- Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed team, and under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Strategic thinking and the ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies.
- Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design.
- Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset.
- Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority.
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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