Alpaca

Senior Software Engineer – Core Ledger

Alpaca

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🏈 Anywhere in North America

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGRPCPostgres

About the role

  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders–including finance, operations, and product teams–to deliver high-impact features/projects
  • Build backend systems/components with integrity, maintainability, scalability, and stability in mind
  • Own the delivery of high-visibility features/projects, from design to deployment
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to improve the health of Alpaca’s systems

Requirements

  • A seasoned engineer with 5+ years of experience working on systems at scale
  • Obsessed with performant, defect-free, maintainable code
  • A strong problem solver with a proactive mindset
  • A collaborator who is capable of creating alignment with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
  • Comfortable working heads-down or tag-teaming problems
  • Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
  • Ability to debug issues or, better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
  • Experience with IDLs (e.g., protobuf), RPC frameworks (e.g., gRPC), cloud platforms (e.g., GCP), and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
Benefits
  • 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
GodebuggingIDLsprotobufRPC frameworksgRPCcloud platformsGCPrelational databasesPostgreSQL
Soft skills
problem solvingcollaborationproactive mindsetcreating alignmentworking independentlyteamworkcommunication