Alpaca
Who We Are: Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges. Alpaca’s globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are also deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our award-winning developer-friendly API and the infrastructure behind it. Our Team Members: We’re a team of 150+ globally distributed members who love working from our favorite places worldwide. Our team spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and more! We’re looking for candidates eager to join Alpaca’s growing organization, who are excited about our Mission of “Open financial services to everyone on the planet and share our Values of “Stay Curious,” “Have Empathy,” and “Be Accountable.”
Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts) Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matters Maintain good software quality and test coverage Participate in code reviews Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale Experience with at least compiled imperative languages (e.g. Go, C, C++, Rust, etc.). Most of our critical services are written in Go SQL or relational database skills Familiarity with TCP/IP, and UDP networking Proficient with Linux/BSD, and shell scripting Excited about what we are building at Alpaca Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (we primarily use Kubernetes via GKE) Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP) A passion for financial markets
Competitive Salary & Stock Options Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. In Japan, you are offered local benefits. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs. New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world
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