Software Engineer - Crypto

About Alpaca

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.

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, totalling over 10 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.

Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!

We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Alpaca’s crypto exchange and market-making systems
• Develop crypto wallet, funding, and tokenization services
• Implement backend services and web applications
• Maintain good software quality and test coverage
• Participate in code reviews
• Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
• You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Requirements

• Knowledge of trading systems and experience building exchanges, market-making systems, matching engines, or other high-throughput, low-latency, regulated, fault-tolerant financial systems

Experience in building crypto

• 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, C/C++ etc. Our platform is based in Golang
• Experience with messaging queues and message brokers.
• SQL or relational database skills
• Hands-on knowledge with Bash, Linux & Docker.
• Excited about what we are building at Alpaca

Preferred

• Kubernetes experience is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes, CKA, CKAD certification
• DevOps mindset is an asset
• 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

Pay

Competitive Salary & Stock Options

Benefits

• Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

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Equal opportunity

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