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<strong>Who We Are:<br><br></strong>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 C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision.<br><br>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 6 million brokerage accounts.<br><br>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. 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.<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>Our Team Members:<br><br></strong>We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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!<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>Your Role:<br><br></strong>We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our Core Trading Team. This is a high-impact technical role for someone who wants to remain deeply hands-on while shaping the architecture of our trading infrastructure. You will be the technical authority on low-latency systems, responsible for pushing the boundaries of performance, determinism, and scale across order routing, execution, and market connectivity.<br><br>You will not manage people directly — instead, you will lead through technical expertise, code quality, and design influence, mentoring others while continuing to be a principal contributor to mission-critical systems.<br><br><strong>Key Responsibilities<br><br></strong><ul><li>Own the architecture, design, and technical roadmap of the core trading platform.</li><li>Lead initiatives on low-latency optimizations, deterministic performance, and resiliency.</li><li>Guide integration with exchanges and liquidity venues (FIX, OUCH, ITCH, proprietary APIs) at scale.</li><li>Establish best practices for high-frequency trading system development (testing, monitoring, incident response).</li><li>Partner with risk and compliance teams to embed real-time pre-trade risk, credit, and margin controls.</li><li>Act as a multiplier: mentor engineers, perform design reviews, and elevate engineering standards.</li><li>Lead architecture discussions and long-term system design for scalability and resilience.</li><li>Drive cross-team projects that impact multiple trading desks (e.g., global order routing, fault-tolerant market data infra).</li><li>Proactively identify scalability bottlenecks and lead refactoring/redesign initiatives.</li><li>Serve as a technical point of escalation for production trading issues.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Qualifications<br><br></strong><ul><li>Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.</li><li>10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in trading, fintech, or distributed systems.</li><li>Deep expertise in Go, C++, or Java, with a track record of building low-latency, high-throughput systems.</li><li>Strong foundation in operating systems internals, networking, and concurrency.</li><li>Demonstrated experience with architecture & system design for trading systems.</li><li>Strong knowledge of messaging, storage, and distributed computation frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, Aerospike).</li><li>Experience leading large-scale migrations/refactors in production-critical environments.</li><li>Proven track record of mentorship and technical leadership across multiple teams.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Preferred Skills<br><br></strong><ul><li>Experience with equities, derivatives, or FX trading systems.</li><li>Knowledge of cloud, containerization, and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).</li><li>Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).</li><li>Contributions to open-source projects in systems programming or infrastructure.</li><li>Experience scaling engineering orgs and setting technical strategy<br><br></li></ul><strong>How We Take Care of You:<br><br></strong><ul><li>Competitive Salary & Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card<br><br></li></ul><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br><br></em><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em>
