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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.”  

As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca Crypto and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets. For this role, we are seeking an experienced engineer who is obsessed with delivering defect-free solutions, has proven experience architecting and building at scale, and who is not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals in cooperation with a cross-functional team.   Your Role: This role is to lead all Crypto related engineering including our spot and derivatives exchanges licensed in the US and Bahamas. Architect, spec and build the perpetual futures exchange including high-performance matching engine, collateral/liquidation/risk engine, public API, kyc/aml, regulatory reporting, settlement clearing and custody, banking, order management, accounting, analytics and compliance integrations. Our vision for a regulated, centralized multi-asset exchange is designed with modern custody and risk management measures in mind as we prepare for how regulations will change in a post-FTX world. This is a blank canvas opportunity to design a state-of-the-art crypto exchange with the many synergies arising from our renowned securities brokerage with its unimpeachable track record in safeguarding customer assets. We are uniquely positioned to become the pre-eminent brand in global financial investment infrastructure for both crypto and tradfi combined. Alpaca is 100% distributed and remote.  This role will be reporting directly to the Head of Crypto for the initial phase and then to the CTO once the product is more mature.   Things You Get To Do:

Design highly scalable, mission-critical crypto spot and derivatives exchange trading millions of dollars from day one 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

  Who You Are (Must-Haves):

Experience building a CLOB exchange, HFT, market-making, high performance matching engines, margin/liquidation engines or other high-throughput & low-latency, regulated, fault-tolerant financial system 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, 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    Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):  

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 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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