Senior Software Engineer - Ledger

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with finance, operations, product, and other internal stakeholders to deliver high-impact features and projects.
• Build maintainable, scalable, stable, and high-integrity backend systems and components.
• Own high-visibility features and projects from design through deployment.
• Design and implement ledger services that provide a complete and correct source of truth for account activity.
• Debug issues, anticipate potential problems, and improve the health of Alpaca’s systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working on systems at scale.
• Strong coding skills, preferably in Go.
• Experience with IDLs such as protobuf, RPC frameworks such as gRPC, cloud platforms such as GCP, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Ability to design and architect scalable systems and deliver performant, maintainable, defect-free code.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, collaboration, and stakeholder-alignment skills.
• Preferred: experience in financial services or accounting, distributed systems or databases, event-driven systems and messaging brokers such as Redpanda, remote work, or startups.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Health benefits.
• One-time new-hire home-office setup benefit.
• Monthly stipend provided via a Brex Card.
• Globally distributed work environment.