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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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