✨ The Role in One Sentence

Alpaca is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale market data systems, improving architecture and API structure for stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets.

📋 What You'll Likely Do

• 30%: Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca's market data systems and design highly scalable, mission-critical systems.

• 30%: Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matter, obsessing over latency.

• 40%: Maintain software quality, participate in code reviews, and troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs.

🧑‍💻 Profiles Doing This Job

• High Priority: 4+ years of experience working on systems at scale.

• High Priority: Experience with compiled imperative languages (e.g., Go, C, C++, Rust).

• High Priority: Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and major cloud platforms (GCP).

📈 How This Role Will Look on Your CV

• Architected and led medium-scale projects involving multiple teams in a rapidly scaling environment.