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Job description
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.
Responsibilities
### Your Role:
As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form Alpaca's foundation.
- Contributing to regional recruitment initiatives and driving cross-functional team projects.
- Mentoring teammates with respect to our engineering principles and practices.
- Participating in operational reliability engineering during regional business hours.
### Things You Get To Do:
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems for the Japan market.
- Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, REST and gRPC APIs, and third-party vendor integrations.
- Collaborate with Alpaca's core teams to enhance and transform the core framework.
- Coordinate in Japanese with local regulators, vendors, partners, and business stakeholders.
- Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
- Participate in on-call rotations and assist with timely engineering projects.
Requirements
### Who You Are (Must-Haves):
- Native or JLPT N1 level fluency in Japanese.
- Business-level English fluency.
- Proven experience in designing and developing complex financial systems.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and transaction reconciliation.
- Experience in building scalable, high-availability financial applications.
- Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets, preferably in Japan.
- Proficiency in at least one statically typed language (e.g. Go, Rust, Java).
- Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience.
Conditions
### 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
About Alpaca
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.