Senior Software Engineer Prime

Who We Are Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker‑dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional‑grade APIs. This includes broker‑dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We’re deeply committed to open‑source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award‑winning, developer‑friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Team Members We’re a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! Your Role Your job is to build Alpaca’s algo trading platform to meet our users’ expectations for high quality and performance in their brokerage service. This opportunity is similar to joining AWS or Heroku in their early days, designing and architecting our platform by wearing many different hats in our small team. As an experienced engineer, you will write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our customers. This requires deep knowledge in both frontend and backend, databases and distributed systems, as well as broad experience from low to high level in CPU‑level hardware for high throughput, robust concurrency system design, abstract distributed system architecture for high availability and object‑oriented data modelling with long‑term growth in mind. Requirements Strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience is preferred. Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python. Low latency and high throughput optimization. Experience with messaging queues and message brokers. Analytical data‑oriented mindset and skills. Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems and concurrency control. System design skills with object‑oriented data modeling, service‑oriented architectures, system abstraction. Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS). Nice to have Algo trading experience (either professional or personal). FIX protocol knowledge. Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking. Financial market (exchange, broker‑dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge. Experience with financial ledgers. Statistical and quantitative analysis skills. Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP). Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. How We Take Care of You 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. Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy #J-18808-Ljbffr