Software Engineer - Advisory Suite

Responsibilities

• Build Alpaca’s proprietary services for advisory products including block trading, portfolio management, and IRA services.
• Design and architect highly available, scalable, concurrent, low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
• Write production code across frontend and backend systems, databases, and financial transaction infrastructure.
• Develop and implement Order Management Systems and other heavily loaded financial transactional systems.
• Make critical technical decisions focused on customer experience, system performance, and long-term maintainability.

Requirements

• Previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems, including OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, or quantitative trading.
• Strong system design skills in object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, and system abstraction.
• Experienced software engineering background with senior-level experience preferred.
• Coding ability in low- and high-level languages such as C, C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, and Python.
• Experience optimizing low-latency and high-throughput systems.
• Experience with messaging queues and message brokers.
• Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low-latency systems, and concurrency control.
• Analytical, data-oriented mindset and experience developing and implementing OMS or highly loaded financial transactional systems.
• FIX protocol knowledge preferred.
• Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling, and benchmarking preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Health benefits.
• One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup payment.
• USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
• Globally distributed work environment.