Senior Software Engineer - Core Ledger
Alpaca • Baltimore, Maryland, United States • Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Posted December 3, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
Job Description
Alpaca is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement, and maintain systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working on systems at scale
- Obsessed with performant, defect-free, maintainable code
- Strong problem solver with a proactive mindset
- 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