软件工程师 - 市场数据
Software Engineer - Market Data
我们是谁：
Alpaca 是一家总部位于美国的全球领先代理优先经纪基础设施公司，提供股票、ETF、期权、加密货币、固定收益、24/5 小时交易等服务。
在我们的子公司中，Alpaca 是一家持牌金融服务公司，通过我们机构级 API 为全球 40 个国家的数百家金融机构提供服务。这包括经纪自营商、投资顾问、财富管理公司、对冲基金和加密货币交易所，总计超过 1000 万笔经纪账户。
我们的全球团队由经验丰富的工程师、交易员和经纪专业人士组成，致力于实现我们让全球每个人都能享受金融服务的使命。我们高度重视开源贡献，积极培育充满活力的社区，持续提升我们获奖的、开发者友好的 API 及其背后的强大基础设施。
Alpaca 获得了来自顶级全球投资者的 4 亿美元资金支持，包括 Portage Ventures、Spark Capital、Tribe Capital、Social Leverage、Horizons Ventures、Opera Tech Ventures、SBI Group、Derayah Financial、Unbound、Peak XV、Elefund 和 Y Combinator。
我们的团队成员：
我们是一个由 400 多名分布在世界各地的成员组成的充满活力的团队，大家在世界各个最喜欢的地方工作，团队成员遍布美国、加拿大、日本、匈牙利、尼日利亚、巴西、英国等地！
我们正在寻找渴望为 Alpaca 的快速增长做出贡献的热情人士。如果你认同我们的核心价值观——保持好奇、富有同理心、承担责任，并准备好产生重大影响，我们鼓励你申请。
你的角色：
作为高级软件工程师，你将帮助构建和扩展构成 Alpaca 基础的系统和服务，使数百万用户能够交易价值数十亿美元的资产。
市场数据团队负责改进与数据产品（如股票、期权、加密货币和外汇市场）相关的 Alpaca 整体架构。负责监督其公共 API 结构和文档，包括流式传输和历史端点。该团队负责构建统一的开发者优先 API，并负责规划、构思、实验和将新的服务及库投入生产，以解决我们在快速扩展过程中面临的最大技术挑战。
我们正在寻找高级或资深工程师，他们热衷于提供高质量的解决方案，具备扎实的基础知识。
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Who We Are:
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.
Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Our Team Members:
We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!
We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Your Role:
As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.
The market data team is responsible for improving the overall architecture of Alpaca connected to data products such as stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets. Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and is tasked with planning, ideating, experimenting, and putting into production the new services, and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly.
We are looking for senior or staff 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. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.
Things You Get To Do:
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical market data provider services
- Maintain good software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
- BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
- Minimum 3 years of experience of backend software development
- Hands-on experience with Docker or Kubernetes
- DevOps mindset
- Excited about what we are building at Alpaca
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
- Experience working with large datasets
- Experience with Kubernetes (CKA or CKAD certification is a plus)
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with IP networking
- Good understanding of the financial market
- Experience with any of the major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Hands-on knowledge with shell scripting, Linux & Docker
- Knowledge of microservice architectures
- Knowledge of clean code principles
Our Tech & Infrastructure Stack:
- GoLang (primary), Python
- REST, gRPC, Websockets, SSE
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Google Cloud Services (Google Kubernetes Engine, BigTable)
- Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
How We Take Care of You:
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
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