Senior Software Engineer - Payments & Treasury

Alpaca is a self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. We're searching for senior software engineers to build and scale our global payments and treasury platform.

Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team
• A preference for simple and elegant solutions
• At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
• Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
• Experience with client facing APIs
• Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
• Ability to write clean, well tested, and maintainable code
• Experience with domain driven design and event driven design
• Ability to debug issues or better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
• Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
• Experience with distributed systems design
• Previous experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle
• Experience with double entry accounting and financial ledgers

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