From the listing
About the role
As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form Alpaca's foundation and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.
The identity team is responsible for building a modern platform for onboarding users, verifying their identity, evaluating risk, and managing their trading accounts. We are expanding the platform to handle identity verification on a global basis and to support our growing set of account types.
We are looking for senior engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions.
What you'll do
- Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on
- Help us create a global financial identity verification and risk management service
- Implement backend services and work on designing an architecture where reliability matters
- Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions
- Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems
- Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general
- Maintain good software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
- Participate in on-call duties to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
What they're looking for
- At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
- Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
- Ability to turn business requirements into a flexible implementation model
- Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design
- Ability to write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Nice to have
- Experience in the finance industry
- Experience with financial identity management, e.g. KYC
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Experience integrating with external services
- Experience working remotely
- Experience working at a startup
- DevOps mindset
From the company page
Alpaca benefits
◉ Remote policy · in their words
“Our teams are not just global, we’re also 100% remote and have team members in almost every time zone and continent (except Antarctica).”
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The hot takeJeff's read on Alpaca
I like their clear views on the value of remote work, check out this quote from their careers page:
> "Our teams are not just global, we're also 100% remote and have team members in almost every time zone and continent (except Antarctica). By joining Alpaca you'll be part of a multicultural, international organization."
I also like that their Glassdoor scores are going up (now 3.7/5), and they have some solid testimonials. I'm a LITTLE wary of this statement that gives me a bit of a "hustle culture" vibe:
> "We're keen on that last 10% of effort and believe that the details do matter. If this sounds like you, then you're in the right place."