Senior Software Engineer - Identity
我们是谁：阿尔帕卡是一家总部位于美国的，全球领导者在股票，ETF,期权，加密货币，固定收入，24/5交易等领域。我们子公司中，阿尔帕카是一个经营许可的金融服务公司，通过我们的机构级 API 为40个国家的数百家金融机构提供服务。包括经纪商，投资顾问，财富管理人员，对冲基金和加密货幣交易所，共计超过1000万个经纪账户。我们的全球团队是由多样化的工程师，贸易商和经验丰富的经纪专业人士组成的，他们致力于实现我们向地球上所有人开放金融服务的使命。我们致力于开源贡献，培养一个充满活力的社区，不断增强我们的获奖的开发者友好 API 和其背后的坚实的基础设施。阿尔帕卡自豪地得到了来自全球顶级投资者的4亿美元的资金支持，包括波特杰风险投资公司，斯巴克资本，部落资本，社会杆，水平企业，奥佩拉科技创业公司，SBI 集团，德里亚雅金融，未绑定，峰 XV,Elefund 和 Y 组合器。我们的团队成员：我们是一个由400多名全球分布式成员组成的动态团队，他们从世界各地的工作中成长，与在美国，加拿大，日本，匈牙利，尼日利亚，巴西，英国以及其他地区的同事们合作！我们正在寻找热情人士，渴望为阿尔帕卡快速增长做出贡献。如果你符合我们的核心价值观保持好奇，有同理心和负责任并且准备好产生重大影响，我们鼓励你申请。你的角色：作为一名高级软件工程师，你将帮助构建并扩大 Alpaca 的基础系统和服务，赋予数百万交易数十亿美元资产的用户权力。身份团队负责建立一个现代化的平台来登录用户，验证他们的身份，评估风险和管理他们的交易账户。这些人，企业和账户是阿尔帕卡系统的基本组成部分，我们需要在实现非常高的自动化率时建立新的能力。我们正在扩大平台以全球范围内处理身份验证并支持不断增长的帐户类型。我们寻找热衷于提供优质解决方案的高级工程师，拥有伟大的基础知识，具有证明规模建设和建筑经验，不害怕挑战
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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 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. These people, businesses, and accounts are foundational components of the Alpaca system, and we need to build new capabilities while achieving very high automation rates. 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 or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals. An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices is also a great asset we are actively looking for.
Things You Get To Do:
Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely onHelp us create a global financial identity verification and risk management serviceImplement backend services and work on designing an architecture where reliability mattersTake ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutionsContribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systemsWork with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in generalMaintain good software quality and test coverageParticipate in code reviewsTroubleshooting on incidents and reported bugsYou may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindsetAbility to turn business requirements into a flexible implementation modelExcellent communication and collaboration skillsAbility to work independently and as part of a teamA preference for simple and elegant solutionsAt least 3 years of experience working on systems at scaleProven experience in building and maintaining microservicesStrong coding skills, preferably in GoAbility to write clean, well-tested, and maintainable codeExperience with domain-driven design and event-driven designAbility to debug issues or, better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirelyFamiliarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially KubernetesExperience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud PlatformExperience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
Experience in the finance industryExperience with financial identity management, e.g. KYCExperience with messaging queues and message brokersExperience integrating with external servicesExperience working remotelyExperience working at a startupDevOps mindset is an asset
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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