Description

Join Alpaca to build an algo trading platform, requiring deep knowledge in frontend and backend development, databases, and distributed systems for high-performance brokerage services.

Experience Level

Senior

Responsibilities

• Build Alpaca's algo trading platform
• Design and architect the platform
• Write code and make critical decisions
• Ensure high quality and performance

Requirements

• Strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience
• Coding skills in 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 Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS)

Nice to Have

• Algo trading experience
• FIX protocol knowledge
• Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking
• Financial market knowledge
• Experience with financial ledgers
• Statistical and quantitative analysis skills
• Experience with major cloud platforms
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes