About the company
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 as well as millions of individual customers all over the world. 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 brokerage infrastructure behind it.
Job Summary
Key Responsibilities
đź“ŤOwn the architecture, design, and technical roadmap of the risk and margin platform. đź“ŤLead initiatives on low-latency optimizations, deterministic performance, and resiliency. đź“ŤGuide integration with exchanges and liquidity venues (FIX, OUCH, ITCH, proprietary APIs) at scale. đź“ŤEstablish best practices for high-frequency trading system development (testing, monitoring, incident response). đź“ŤPartner with risk and compliance teams to embed real-time pre-trade risk, credit, and margin controls. đź“ŤAct as a multiplier: mentor engineers, perform design reviews, and elevate engineering standards. đź“ŤLead architecture discussions and long-term system design for scalability and resilience. đź“ŤDrive cross-team projects that impact multiple trading desks (e.g., global order routing, fault-tolerant market data infra). đź“ŤProactively identify scalability bottlenecks and lead refactoring/redesign initiatives. đź“ŤServe as a technical point of escalation for production trading issues.
Qualifications
📍Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent. 📍10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in trading, fintech, or distributed systems. 📍Deep expertise in Go, C++, or Java, with a track record of building low-latency, high-throughput systems. 📍Strong foundation in operating systems internals, networking, and concurrency. 📍Demonstrated experience with architecture & system design for trading systems. 📍Strong knowledge of messaging, storage, and distributed computation frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, Aerospike).
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