Senior Software Engineer – New Markets

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About the role

  • Senior Software Engineer designing scalable brokerage systems for Alpaca, a global agent-first brokerage infrastructure provider. Building Go services, React administration tools, and financial integrations supporting multiple markets and currencies.

Responsibilities

  • Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system
  • Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI for internal administration and API developers, and third-party vendor integrations
  • Work with core teams to enhance and transform the core framework for multiple languages, currencies, and markets
  • Collaborate with tech leads in other regions synchronously and asynchronously using Slack and 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
  • Participate in on-call support for timely engineering projects
  • Support regional recruitment initiatives and cross-functional team projects
  • Mentor engineering talent on principles and practices and foster Alpaca culture in the region
  • Serve as operational reliability and engineering lead and incident commander during regional business hours, ensuring proactive 24x7 stability
  • Architect and implement solutions aligned with strategic objectives

Requirements

  • Strong problem-solving skills and proactive mindset
  • Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages
  • Expertise designing robust and efficient system architectures
  • Strong computer science fundamentals
  • Proven software engineering architecture experience
  • Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs
  • Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed team and under pressure
  • Strategic thinking and ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies
  • Experience with event-driven design
  • Strong communication skills for collaboration with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders

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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

GRPCMicroservicesReactGo

Location requirements

RemoteNorth America

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