About this role

Build Alpaca's algo trading platform to meet users' expectations for quality and performance
Design and architect the platform as part of a small team
Write code and make critical decisions for customer experience
Deep knowledge in frontend and backend, distributed systems, and high throughput design required

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)

Senior Software Engineer

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