About the role

Senior Software Engineer designing scalable brokerage systems and Go-based services for Alpaca's global financial-services platform. Enhancing multi-market infrastructure, leading regional reliability, and managing incidents.

Responsibilities

Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system
Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI, and third-party vendor integrations
Enhance and transform the core framework to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets
Collaborate with tech leads in other regions synchronously and asynchronously, including occasional meetings outside regular working hours
Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance
Navigate regulatory requirements and build scalable solutions supporting international growth
Serve as operational reliability and engineering lead and incident commander during regional business hours
Participate in on-call support for timely engineering projects when asked

Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures
Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders
Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority
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 event-driven design