Senior Software Engineer - Core Trading

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 9 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

### Your Role: - Build Alpaca's algo trading platform to satisfy users' expectations for high quality and performance. - Design and architect the platform, wearing many different hats in a small team. - Write code and make critical decisions to deliver the best experience to customers. - Ensure deep knowledge in both frontend and backend, databases, and distributed systems.

### Who You Are (Must-Haves): - Strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience preferred. - Coding skills in both low and high level languages: 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).

### How We Take Care of You: - Competitive Salary & Stock Options. - Health Benefits. - New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500. - Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card.

Alpaca is a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs, providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto, along with embeddable finance solutions like tokenization and securities lending. It serves retail traders, institutional investors, app developers, and fintech companies worldwide through its API-first platform. The company, originally started in 2015 as a database and machine learning firm, is headquartered in San Mateo, California.