Senior Software Engineer - Identity - Alpaca : Job Details
Senior Software Engineer - Identity
AlpacaJob Location : New York,NY, USA
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Who We Are:Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges.
Who We Are:Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges.Alpaca's globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are also deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our award-winning developer-friendly API and the infrastructure behind it.Our Team Members:We're a team of 200+ globally distributed members who love working from our favorite places worldwide. Our team spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and more!We're looking for candidates eager to join Alpaca's growing organization, who are excited about our Mission of Open financial services to everyone on the planet and share our Values of Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable. Your Role:As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form Alpaca's foundation and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.The identity team is responsible for building a modern platform for onboarding users, verifying their identity, evaluating risk, and managing their trading accounts. These people, businesses, and accounts are foundational components of the Alpaca system, and we need to build new capabilities while achieving very high automation rates. We are expanding the platform to handle identity verification on a global basis and to support our growing set of account types.We are looking for senior engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals. An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices is also a great asset we are actively looking for.Things You Get To Do:
- Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on
- Help us create a global financial identity verification and risk management service
- Implement backend services and work on designing an architecture where reliability matters
- Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions
- Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems
- Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general
- Maintain good software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
- You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
- Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
- Ability to turn business requirements into a flexible implementation model
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- 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
- 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 in the finance industry
- Experience with financial identity management, e.g. KYC
- Experience integrating with external services
- Experience working remotely
- Experience working at a startup
- DevOps mindset is an asset
- 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
- Seniority levelMid-Senior level
- Employment typeFull-time
- Job functionEngineering and Information Technology
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