Senior Software Engineer - Crypto

September 17

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Alpaca

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Finance • Trading • Fintech • Algorithm Trading • Investing

201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

Description

• As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca Crypto. • Design highly scalable, mission-critical crypto spot and derivatives exchange trading millions of dollars from day one. • 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.

Requirements

• Experience building a CLOB exchange, HFT, market-making, high performance matching engines, margin/liquidation engines or other high-throughput & low-latency, regulated, fault-tolerant financial system • 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, Python, C/C++, NodeJS, Java, etc. Our platform is based in Golang • 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

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. 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