Principal/Senior Software Engineer

Alpaca is a fast-growing FinTech API startup backed by a group of prominent investors including Spark, Portage, Social Leverage, Tribe, Horizons, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator, and highly experienced industry angel investors. Alpaca has raised a total of $70+ million to date.

Alpaca builds an API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform that developers and businesses embed investing, build apps, algorithmically trade with. Of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contribution and community building!

• Design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system

• Implement backend services and web applications

• 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

Required Qualifications and Experience: 

• BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field

• *Minimum 4 years of experience of backend software development

• Experience with at least one modern programming language like GoLang, Python, C/C++, NodeJS, Java, etc. Our platform is based in Golang

• SQL or relational database skills

• Hands-on knowledge with Bash, Linux & Docker. Kubernetes experience is a plus

• Excited about what we are building at Alpaca

*The position level and title will vary according to candidate's experience and skills

• Experience with Kubernetes, CKA, CKAD certification

• DevOps mindset is an asset

• Experience with NoSQL

• Experience with CI/CD

• Good understanding of the financial market

• Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies

• Knowledge of microservice architectures

• Knowledge of clean code principles

How We Take Care of You:

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options

• Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision.  In Canada, this includes supplemental healthcare.  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 people, clients, and partners from around the world

• Retirement Plan - While we take care of our international folks as best we can, currently, retirement plans are only available to US-based employees

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.