Alpaca
Financial Services
SeniorSoftwareEngineer-CoreTrading
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“Senior Software Engineer - Core Trading at Alpaca. Skills: Core Trading, System Design, Low Latency, High Throughput. Build algo trading platform. Write code”
What You'll Achieve.
Satisfy users; High quality; High performance
Industry & Context.
Analytical data-oriented mindset
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems, Coding skills in low and high level languages, Low latency and high throughput optimization, Experience with messaging queues and message brokers, Analytical data-oriented mindset, Knowledge of algorithms, Knowledge of distributed systems, Knowledge of scalability, Knowledge of high availability, Knowledge of databases, Knowledge of low latency systems, Knowledge of concurrency control, System design skills, Object-oriented data modeling, Service-oriented architectures, System abstraction, Development and implementation of Order Management systems, Development and implementation of Risk Management systems
Nice to Have
Lead experience, Algo trading experience, FIX protocol knowledge, Experience with observability, Experience with tracing, Experience with continuous profiling, Experience with benchmarking, Financial market knowledge, Experience with financial ledgers, Statistical and quantitative analysis skills, Experience with major cloud platforms, Experience with Docker, Experience with Kubernetes
What You'll Do.
Build algo trading platform
Make critical decisions
Deliver best experience
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with product team
Full Job Description
Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. 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 9 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 top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 380+ 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. Your Role: 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.
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