engineering
Posted 3 weeks agoSenior Software Engineer - Core Trading
at Alpaca
Americas, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction •
Requirements
- 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 job is to build Alpaca's algo trading platform to satisfy our users who expect high quality and performance from their brokerage service. This opportunity is similar to joining AWS or Heroku in their early days, designing and architecting our platform by wearing many different hats in our small team.
- experience to our customers. This certainly requires deep knowledge in both frontend and backend, databases and distributed systems, as well as broad
- experience from low to high level in CPU-level hardware for high throughput, robust concurrency system design, abstract distributed system architecture for high availability and object-oriented data modeling with long term growth in mind.
- You must have previous software engineering
- experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading).
- Who You Are (Must-Haves):
- Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems and concurrency control
- Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS) Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): Algo trading
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking
- Experience with financial ledgers
- Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP) •
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes How We Take Care of You:
Benefits
- Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.