Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

Building Alpaca's algo trading platform, the remote Senior Software Engineer will focus on delivering high-quality and high-performance brokerage services, leveraging extensive experience in both frontend and backend development, as well as system architecture.

Key responsibilities

• Design and architect the algo trading platform to meet user expectations for quality and performance
• Write and optimize code across various programming languages while ensuring low latency and high throughput
• Make critical decisions regarding system design, including object-oriented data modeling and distributed system architecture

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience in trading or exchange systems
• Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Go, Java, Python, and others
• Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
• Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, and high availability design
• Experience with Order Management Systems (OMS) and Risk Management Systems (RMS)