Senior Software Engineer, Quality Engineering
AlpacaAPI Brokerage company
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Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build and own frameworks, tooling, and CI/CD infrastructure for quality assurance.
- •As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will build and own the frameworks, tooling, and CI/CD infrastructure that let Alpaca’s engineers ship new features quickly and reliably.
- •This is a software engineering role at its core: you will spend most of your time writing Go, designing automated test frameworks, and digging into application code and Kubernetes when needed.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and build automated test frameworks across our REST and gRPC API surface.
- •Leverage AI and LLM-based tooling to accelerate test generation, harden regression coverage, and turn production incidents into automated tests
- •embedding these practices into the frameworks the whole engineering org relies on.
- •Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- •we use a mix of GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build.
- •Requirements You have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer building and maintaining production systems.
- •You have written code in strongly typed languages and have at least 1 year of experience with Go.
- •You are fluent with AI-assisted engineering
- •you actively use LLM-based tools in your workflow and have a clear point of view on where they elevate quality (and where they don’t).
Required skills
GoKubernetesCI/CDLLMs
Nice-to-have skills
PythonTypeScriptDocker
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
GoKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsHelmLLMs