Job description

Alpaca is a fast-growing fintech API startup backed by a group of prominent investors including Spark, Portage, Social Leverage, Tribe, Horizons, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator, and highly experienced industry angel investors. Alpaca has raised a total of $72 million to date.

Alpaca builds a developer API that allows apps and developers globally to launch commission-free stock trading apps. Our platform also offers a developer-friendly community and platform for traders to programmatically trade stocks with ease. Of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contribution and community building!

Responsibilities:

Design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system
Implement backend services and web applications
Analyze and maintain existing software applications
Improve test coverage
Discover and fix programming bugs
You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Technology stack:

GoLang, NodeJS & Python
PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis
GKE & GCP

Required Qualifications And Experience:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
Experience with at least one of: GoLang, Python, C++, NodeJS
Frontend technologies: React & Redux
SQL or relational database skills
Hands-on knowledge with Linux & Docker. Kubernetes experience is a plus.
DevOps mindset
Understanding of the financial market is a plus
Excited about what we are building at Alpaca