Senior Software Engineer - Clearing

Note: While 100% remote, this position gives preference to candidates living near the Greater Tokyo area.

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Who We Are:

Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding.

Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services.

Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open-source contributions as well as community building.

The Alpaca Team:

We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company.

Your Role:

As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.

The clearing team is responsible for building a modern clearing and settlements platform. Alpaca is a participant in a market where over two trillion dollars worth of equities need to be cleared and settled on a daily basis. We are tackling the industry with a modern approach on building highly scalable, event driven systems where resilient engineering, scale, and performance can have critical advantages.

We have exciting plans for the team; self-clearing is just the first step in building end-to-end financial infrastructure as we continue to prove ourselves as an innovative market leader and a core component for our growth across global markets and asset classes.

We are looking for senior engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals. An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices are also great assets we actively look for.

Things You Get To Do:

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 work on designing an architecture where reliability matters

Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions

Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems

Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general

Maintain good software quality and test coverage

Participate in code reviews

Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs

You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature