Senior Software Engineer – Core Trading

Alpaca

Building Alpaca's algo trading platform to enhance user experience in brokerage services. Requires deep technical knowledge and a high-quality development approach in a startup environment.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsGoHerokuJavaPythonRustScala

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
As an experienced engineer, you will write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our customers.
This certainly requires deep knowledge in both frontend and backend, databases and distributed systems, as well as 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

What you’ll need

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
Analytical data-oriented mindset and skills
Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems and concurrency control
System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction
Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS)

Benefits

Comp & 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

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Hard Skills & Tools

CC++GoZigRustJavaScalaPythonlow latency optimizationhigh throughput optimization

Soft Skills

analytical mindsetleadership experience