Senior Software Engineer - Core Trading

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for various financial services. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build their algo trading platform, requiring deep knowledge in both frontend and backend systems, and experience in trading or exchange systems.

Responsibilities:

• Build Alpaca's algo trading platform to satisfy our users who expect high quality and performance from their brokerage service
• Designing and architecting our platform by wearing many different hats in our small team
• Write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our 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)
• You must have previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading)
• 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