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Alpaca

Senior Software Engineer – Advisory Suite

Posted 3 Days Ago
In-Office or Remote
8 Locations
Senior level
In-Office or Remote
8 Locations
Senior level
As a Senior Software Engineer, design and maintain backend services for portfolio management, trade aggregation, and financial analytics. Collaborate with teams to create efficient systems and write maintainable code in Go.
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Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

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 6 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 top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.


Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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.

Your Role:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Advisory Suite team, which powers key components of our investment management platform. You will work on critical financial engines, including portfolio rebalancing, trade aggregation, tax optimization, and fixed income analytics. You will design, build, and scale services that enable investment advisors to manage client portfolios with precision and efficiency.

Things You Get To Do:
  • Design, build, and maintain backend services for:
    • Portfolio rebalancing algorithms
    • Trade aggregation logic (VWAP, TWAP)
    • Tax lot accounting and optimization
    • Fixed income product modelling and yield computation
  • Contribute to future product areas within the advisory suite team and/or trading platform
  • Collaborate with product, data and other engineering teams to translate business and financial logic into performant systems
  • Write clean, maintainable, and testable code in Go
  • Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and sprint planning
  • Contribute to scaling strategies and observability practices (e.g., tracing, alerting, dashboards)
Who. You Are (Must-Haves):
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and systems design
  • Experience with financial systems, trading, or portfolio analytics is a strong plus
  • Familiarity with time-series data processing and numerical accuracy (especially for VWAP/TWAP)
  • Knowledge of fixed income concepts (e.g., yield curves, duration, accrual)
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment
How We Take Care of You:
  • 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

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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