Software Engineer - Core Trading

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Alpaca

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Overview

Job details

Fully remote
Only from certain places, per the ad: “Remote - Americas or EU”

Requirements

Have the right to work in Spain
Alpaca doesn't mention sponsorship, but this role may fit the Digital nomad visa.
Work in English
English is required, per the ad.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

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

Requirements

What we're looking for

Strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience is preferred
Coding skills in both low and high level languages around Go, C/C++
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
Experience with highly scalable distributed low latency systems.
System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction

Nice to have

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves)

Algo trading experience (either professional or personal)
Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS)
FIX protocol knowledge
Experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading)
Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking
Financial market (exchange, broker-dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge
Experience with financial ledgers
Statistical and quantitative analysis skills
Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

The role

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. Joining an early stage startup, the payoff to this highly demanding environment will be worth the effort.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

About Alpaca

Alpaca is a financial technology company that provides API-first brokerage infrastructure, enabling developers and businesses to build and operate trading applications. Founded in 2015, the company offers commission-free trading APIs, global market data, and a crypto trading platform, serving a wide range of clients from fintech startups to established financial institutions. Alpaca is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, and has expanded its operations globally, including a significant presence in Spain.

In Spain, Alpaca has established a technology and operations hub, with a growing team of engineers, analysts, and operations specialists. The company's culture emphasizes innovation, agility, and a global mindset, making it an attractive destination for international professionals. With roles spanning software engineering, market data, and trading operations, Alpaca offers opportunities for those interested in the intersection of finance and technology, and its Spanish office plays a key role in supporting its EMEA and APAC operations.

Founded: 2015
Employees: 100–500
Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
In Spain: Madrid
Website: alpaca.markets

Good to know if you are moving

Alpaca has a significant engineering and operations hub in Madrid, Spain, which is a key part of its global expansion.
The company offers a remote-friendly work culture, with many roles allowing flexibility, which can be beneficial for international hires.
Alpaca provides visa sponsorship for qualified international candidates, making it easier for professionals to relocate to Spain.
The company is at the forefront of fintech innovation, offering exposure to cutting-edge technologies in trading and blockchain.
Alpaca's diverse team includes employees from over 30 countries, fostering an inclusive and multicultural work environment.

In their own words

About the company & team

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!

We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values-Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable-and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.