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
Location
North America
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer
AlpacaDB
• Your job is to build Alpaca's algo trading platform to meet our users' expectations for high quality and performance in 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 modelling with long-term growth in mind. • Joining an early-stage startup, the payoff to this highly demanding environment will be worth the effort.
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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