Lead Software Engineer

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Alpaca

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Alpaca is a fintech company that provides a comprehensive brokerage and trading platform through a suite of APIs. These APIs enable developers and businesses to integrate algorithmic trading, app development, and embedded investing into their services. Alpaca offers services like trading in US stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency with options for local currency transactions. The company is recognized for its cyber security practices and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. Alpaca is ideal for fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services looking to build sophisticated trading applications and platforms with minimal friction through their well-documented Broker API.

Finance • Trading • Fintech • Algorithm Trading • Investing

201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

📋 Description

• As the engineering tech lead for new market initiatives, you will be responsible for building a talented group of software engineers in Japan who will be members of our functional product and infrastructure engineering teams and able to work together across functional boundaries on high-growth initiatives. • You will be responsible for regional recruitment initiatives, leading cross-functional team projects, mentoring talent with respect to our engineering principles and practices, and fostering Alpaca culture in the region. • As the lead, you will also ensure operational reliability engineering and incident commander during regional business hours to ensure proactive 24x7 stability.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience in designing and developing complex financial systems, preferably including double-entry accounting. • Strong understanding of accounting principles, ledger structures, and transaction reconciliation. • Experience in building scalable, high-availability financial applications that handle multi-currency transactions. • Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets. • Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures. • Experience working with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes. • Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders. • Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience. • Ability to work independently and under pressure in a fast-paced environment. • Strategic thinking and the ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies. • Strong familiarity with the software development life cycle. • Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design. • Obsession with performant, defect-free, maintainable code. • Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset. • The ability to work independently and as part of a team. • A preference for simple and elegant solutions. • Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options • Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. In Japan, you are offered local benefits. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs. • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card • Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world