Senior Software Engineer - Prime

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for various financial services. The role involves building Alpaca's algo trading platform, requiring strong software engineering skills and experience in trading or exchange systems.

Responsibilities:

• Build Alpaca's algo trading platform to meet users' expectations for high quality and performance in their brokerage service
• Design and architect the platform by wearing many different hats in a small team
• Write code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to customers

Requirements:

• 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)
• Algo trading experience (either professional or personal)
• FIX protocol knowledge
• Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking
• Financial market (exchange, broker-dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge
• Experience with financial ledgers
• Statistical and quantitative analysis skills
• Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes