Role in brief
Alpaca, a financial services company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its payments and treasury platform. This role involves building and scaling critical systems that support global financial transactions. Candidates with experience in distributed, event-driven microservices, particularly in Go, and familiarity with payment rails and financial ledgers, should consider applying.
About the role
This position focuses on developing and expanding Alpaca's global payments and treasury platform. The work involves creating and maintaining systems that manage money movement, which is central to the company's operations. The team emphasizes scalable, event-driven architectures and robust engineering practices to ensure system integrity and operational resilience.
The role contributes to a platform that supports millions of users and billions of dollars in assets daily. Success in this position means delivering a comprehensive treasury platform that integrates seamlessly into a global financial infrastructure. This involves a commitment to building a leading end-to-end solution within the financial industry.
Alpaca provides brokerage infrastructure to financial institutions across 40 countries. The engineering team is diverse and committed to open-source contributions, enhancing the company's API and underlying infrastructure. This role is for someone who can work independently and collaboratively within a global team environment.
The annual salary for this position ranges from $98,000 to $162,000 USD.
Skills that matter here
- Go Programming Language: The role requires strong coding skills, with a preference for Go, to build and maintain microservices and other system components.
- PostgreSQL: Experience with relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL, is needed for managing and interacting with data within the payments platform.
- Kubernetes: Familiarity with Kubernetes is essential for container orchestration and managing the deployment of distributed systems.
- Distributed Systems: The position involves designing and working with distributed systems to ensure scalability and resilience of the payments platform.
- Microservices: Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices is a key requirement for developing the platform's architecture.
- Payment Rails: Previous experience or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle is necessary for handling financial transactions.
Who this role suits
- Someone who prioritizes simple, elegant solutions to complex problems.
- An individual with a proactive mindset who can foresee and prevent issues.
- A person capable of working independently while also contributing effectively to a team.
- A candidate with at least three years of experience building and maintaining systems at scale.
From the employer
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.
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
Nice-to-Haves:
- Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of payments 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
- 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.
Questions about this role
What is the remote work policy for this role?
This is a fully remote position.
What level of seniority is expected for this role?
This is a senior-level position.
What are the primary technical skills required?
Key skills include Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Microservices, and experience with payment rails and event-driven design.