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AlpacaDB, Inc., also known as Alpaca and Alpaca Securities, is an API stock and crypto brokerage platform that enables services to embed investing and developer

Senior Software Engineer – Core Trading

Location

United States

Posted

5 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer – Core Trading

AlpacaDB

• 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.

Job Requirements

  • 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

  • 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

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