Software Engineer - Crypto

Summary

Alpaca is a global provider of brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and other financial products. The Software Engineer will architect, implement, and maintain the systems and services powering Alpaca Crypto, including exchange, market-making, wallet, funding, tokenization, backend, and web application services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Alpaca’s crypto exchange and market-making systems
• Develop crypto wallet, funding, and tokenization services
• Implement backend services and web applications
• Maintain good software quality and test coverage
• Participate in code reviews
• Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
• You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Skills

• Knowledge of trading systems and experience building exchanges, market-making systems, matching engines, or other high-throughput, low-latency, regulated, fault-tolerant financial systems
• Experience in building crypto
• BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum 4 years of experience of backend software development
• Experience with at least one modern programming language like GoLang, C/C++ etc. Our platform is based in Golang
• Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
• SQL or relational database skills
• Hands-on knowledge with Bash, Linux & Docker. Kubernetes experience is a plus
• Excited about what we are building at Alpaca
• Experience with Kubernetes, CKA, CKAD certification
• DevOps mindset is an asset
• Experience with CI/CD
• Good understanding of the financial market
• Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Knowledge of microservice architectures
• Knowledge of clean code principles

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Knowledge of trading systems and experience building exchanges, market-making systems, matching engines, or other high-throughput, low-latency, regulated, fault-tolerant financial systems
• Experience in building crypto
• BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum 4 years of experience of backend software development
• Experience with at least one modern programming language like GoLang, C/C++ etc. Our platform is based in Golang
• Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
• SQL or relational database skills
• Hands-on knowledge with Bash, Linux & Docker. Kubernetes experience is a plus
• Excited about what we are building at Alpaca

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Kubernetes, CKA, CKAD certification
• DevOps mindset is an asset
• Experience with CI/CD
• Good understanding of the financial market
• Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Knowledge of microservice architectures
• Knowledge of clean code principles

Benefits

• Stock Options
• Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card