Who We Are
Alpaca is a U.S.-headquartered self‑clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure provider for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and 24/5 trading. Our recent Series D round brought total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
Among our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional‑grade APIs, including broker‑dealers, investment advisers, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over nine million brokerage accounts.
Our global team of 230+ diverse engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals spans the U.S., Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the U.K., and beyond. We are committed to open‑source contributions, fostering a vibrant community, and continuously enhancing our award‑winning developer-friendly API and robust infrastructure.
Alpaca is proudly backed by top‑tier investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Your Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Clearing team, you will work on core clearing of U.S. equities and options and help build the infrastructure that enables new product offerings. The role focuses on highly‑critical, non‑user-facing systems that support the day‑to‑day operations of a broker‑dealer.
Things You Get To Do
- Work in a team that values quality of thinking, excellence in execution, practical solutions, and responsibility over tenure or hierarchy.
- Own projects from ideation to deployment, cutting through ambiguity to build what is necessary.
- Design and build new systems that enable new products or unlock more revenue.
- Refine existing systems, improving them for meaningful, tangible outcomes.
- Learn about financial markets infrastructure that keeps markets healthy and functioning.
- Observe the company’s growth, collaborate across teams, and influence product direction.
- Participate in on‑call rotations to keep systems in excellent shape, prioritizing issues that cause team friction.
Who You Are (Must‑Haves)
- Understand the seriousness of building systems that hold customers’ money.
- Have a deep interest in how traditional financial markets operate.
- Can lead projects independently, taking ownership of all aspects from scope to delivery.
- Take responsibility for work; when issues arise, you resolve them directly.
- Recognize which design choices are critical and which can be adjusted as learning occurs.
- Seek out knowledge rather than guessing or relying on LLMs for decision-making.
- Remain open to new information and adjust ideas accordingly.
- Focus on long‑term impact and scale, staying with systems as they evolve.
- Have startup experience and understand shifting priorities in a business environment.
- Can provide constructive feedback and accept differing decisions.
- Possess strong attention to detail, and demonstrate thorough reading of job content.
- Have foundational knowledge of computers, internet, databases, distributed systems, and related tech.
- Be productive with Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.
- Have five or more years of hands‑on experience building reliable, distributed systems.
- Can design solid RESTful APIs and spot poorly designed ones.
Who You Might Be (Nice‑to‑Haves)
- Experience in securities clearing & settlement or securities finance.
- Experience with gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Grafana, Kafka/Redpanda, Helm, Docker.
How We Take Care of You
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- New‑hire home‑office setup: one‑time 500 USD.
- Monthly stipend: 150 USD per month via a Brex card.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Alpaca is proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
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