Senior Software Engineer
AlpacaAPI Brokerage company
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About the role
TL;DR
Build and architect Alpaca's algo trading platform.
- •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.
- •Key Responsibilities Write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our customers.
- •Deep knowledge in both frontend and backend, databases and distributed systems.
- •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.
- •Requirements Strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience is preferred.
- •Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python.
- •Low latency and high throughput optimization.
- •Experience with messaging queues and message brokers.
Required skills
C++PythonJavaScalaGoRedisGoogle Cloud
Nice-to-have skills
DockerKubernetes
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Competitive Salary & Stock Options, Health Benefits, New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500, Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Tech stack
C++GoJavaScalaPythonRedisGoogle Cloud