Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges.

Alpaca’s globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are also deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our award-winning developer-friendly API and the infrastructure behind it.

Our Team Members:

We’re a team of 150+ globally distributed members who love working from our favorite places worldwide. Our team spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and more!

We’re looking for candidates eager to join Alpaca’s growing organization, who are excited about our Mission of “Open financial services to everyone on the planet and share our Values of “Stay Curious,” “Have Empathy,” and “Be Accountable.”

Your Role

As a Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading a talented group of software engineers in designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.

Your job is to be the tech lead engineer of the platform team. In this role, you will design and architect our platform by wearing many different hats on our small team. As an experienced engineer, you will write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our internal engineering teams and customers.

On the platform team, you will write well-structured applications in Go with testing and observability in mind (exposing metrics that can be visualized and used for alerts). You will containerize these into optimized Docker images and design helm charts for deploying to Kubernetes.

You are the ideal candidate if you are a native speaker of K8S, Golang, and Docker and have extensive, hands-on experience with microservices and event-driven architecture. You would be even more awesome if you developed Kafka consumers/producers.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

– Kubernetes experience
– – deep understanding of K8S objects and cloud-native application development
– – written Helm charts
– Docker experience
– – written highly optimized Dockerfiles
– Golang experience (or other modern compiled statically typed languages):
– – concurrent programming
– – writes well-structured / good abstraction / “object-oriented” code
– – writes well-covered code (unit/integration/e2e tests)
– experience with relational databases (Postgres)
– – with a focus on optimized queries on huge tables
– tech-lead and team-lead experience

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

– Has a black-belt in Kubernetes:
– – CKA/CKAD
– – have written Kubernetes operators
– – Tilt experience
– developer experience with Kafka/Redpanda
– – created producers and consumers
– have used message serialization technologies
– – Protobuf
– – Flatbuffer
– experience in various observability tools
– – Prometheus
– – Alertmanager
– – Grafana
– – Loki
– knowledge in algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability and concurrency control
– DevOps mindset (understanding of CI pipelines release procedures)
– understanding of equity/crypto trading

How We Take Care of You:

– 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

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