Senior Software Engineer - Clearing - Remote

Overview

As a senior software engineer at Alpaca, you will help build and scale the systems and services that empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.

In Short

• 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 design reliable architecture
• Take ownership of tasks and propose innovative solutions
• Contribute to architectural decisions for scalable systems
• Collaborate with other teams to improve system interactions
• Maintain good software quality and test coverage
• Participate in code reviews
• Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
• Be on-call for timely engineering projects

Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills and proactive mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• 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 and event-driven design
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Health benefits start on day 1
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month
• Work with awesome hard working people and innovative partners