Software Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Sep 16, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Building Alpaca's algo trading platform, the remote Software Engineer will focus on delivering high-quality and high-performance brokerage services by writing code, making critical architectural decisions, and designing systems for scalability and concurrency.
Key responsibilities:
- Design and architect the algo trading platform to meet user expectations for performance and reliability
- Write and optimize code in both low and high-level programming languages, including Go and C/C++
- Implement and manage distributed systems with a focus on low latency and high throughput optimization
Required qualifications:
- Strong experience as a software engineer with leadership experience preferred
- Proficiency in low and high-level programming languages, particularly Go and C/C++
- Deep knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, and concurrency control
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Analytical mindset with skills in data-oriented system design and object-oriented data modeling
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