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Senior Software Engineer - Payments & Treasury

Posted 20 Days Ago
Remote
Senior level
Remote
Senior level
As a Senior Software Engineer on the payments team, you will build and scale the global payments and treasury platform, focusing on resilient engineering and system integrity to support Alpaca's growth in financial services. You will design solutions autonomously and contribute to defining project goals.
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Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges.

Alpaca’s globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are also deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our award-winning developer-friendly API and the infrastructure behind it.


Our Team Members:

We’re a team of 150+ globally distributed members who love working from our favorite places worldwide. Our team spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and more!

We’re looking for candidates eager to join Alpaca’s growing organization, who are excited about our Mission of “Open financial services to everyone on the planet and share our Values of “Stay Curious,” “Have Empathy,” and “Be Accountable.”


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 daily .

The payments team is responsible for building and maintaining a modern global payments and treasury platform. Operating in an industry in which money movement is a critical component, we adopt a modern technology focused approach with highly scalable, event-driven systems. Resilient engineering, technical and operational scalability, and system integrity are crucial to our success.

We have ambitious plans to build a seamlessly integrated comprehensive treasury platform into an industry leading end-to-end financial infrastructure on a global scale. Alpaca has and will continue to prove ourselves as an innovative market leader and this team is a core component of our growth across global markets and asset classes.

We are looking for senior engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are 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 are actively looking for.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

  • Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • The ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • A preference for simple and elegant solutions
  • At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
  • Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
  • Experience with client-facing APIs
  • Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
  • Ability to write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code
  • Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design
  • Ability to debug issues or, better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
  • 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
  • Experience with distributed systems design
  • Previous experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle
  • Experience with double-entry accounting and financial ledgers

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

  • Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of payment initiations
  • Experience with financial reconciliation systems
  • Experience with or understanding of ISO20022 financial standard
  • Experience working remotely
  • Experience working at a startup, exchange, brokerage, market maker, or hedge fund
  • DevOps mindset is an asset.
How We Take Care of You:
  • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care.  Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.   
  • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
  • Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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