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Alpaca

Senior Software Engineer – Trading

Alpaca

Senior Software Engineer at Alpaca building an algo trading platform for high-quality brokerage service. You will design, code, and make critical system decisions in a dynamic environment.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building high-performance trading platforms with a focus on low latency and high throughput optimization. Proficient in both frontend and backend development, system design, and implementation of Order Management and Risk Management systems.

Highest-signal resume keywords
C/C++ ProgrammingGo ProgrammingDistributed Systems DesignOrder Management Systems (OMS)Low Latency Optimization

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Hard Skills
Java ProgrammingScala ProgrammingPython ProgrammingZig ProgrammingConcurrency ControlObject-Oriented Data ModelingService-Oriented ArchitecturesHigh Availability SystemsMessaging QueuesAnalytical Data-Oriented Mindset
Soft Skills
Critical Decision MakingTeam CollaborationAnalytical Thinking
Industry Keywords
High ThroughputRobust ConcurrencySystem AbstractionScalabilityRisk Management Systems (RMS)

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