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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating event-driven, distributed backend systems, with strong database and data modeling skills. Proficient in designing APIs and capable of making impactful technical decisions while collaborating across teams.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Event-Driven Backend SystemsDatabase And Data ModelingAPI Design And EvolutionProficiency In GoTechnical Decision-Making
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Hard Skills
Distributed SystemsData ReplicationSystem Design FundamentalsWorkflow AutomationData IngestionReference Data ManagementSecurity MasterCorporate Action ProcessingFinancial InstrumentsComplex Problem Solving
Soft Skills
CollaborationClear CommunicationEngineering JudgementOwnershipMentoring
Industry Keywords
TradingBrokerageCapital MarketsCrypto InfrastructureFinancial Technology
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Build services that form the data backbone of Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure
- Design, build and maintain distributed backend services, APIs and data models for Security Master and corporate actions
- Extend reference data systems to support new instruments, asset classes and market-specific requirements, including futures and prediction markets
- Build workflows for ingesting, validating and processing third-party instrument and corporate action information
- Develop internal tools and automation to reduce manual work and improve reference data operations
- Help redesign how foundational asset information is structured and shared across Alpaca
- Contribute to architecture decisions with company-wide impact
- Work closely with engineering and business teams that consume reference data, coordinating changes across services
- Own complex features and technical decisions from design through production, including testing, troubleshooting and continuous improvement
- Support Alpaca’s market expansion, product portfolio growth, and system reliability, performance and operability
Requirements
What you’ll need- Strong experience building and operating event-driven, distributed backend systems
- Strong database and data-modelling skills, with an understanding of eventual consistency and data replication
- Excellent system design fundamentals, including designing and evolving APIs
- Proficiency in a strongly typed programming language and willingness to work in Go
- Experience taking complex or ambiguous problems from initial requirements through delivery and production operation
- Ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs clearly, collaborate across teams and reason through cross-system dependencies
- Senior-level engineering judgement and ownership; capability and impact assessed rather than a fixed years-of-experience threshold
- Nice to have: Experience in trading, brokerage, capital markets, crypto infrastructure or related financial technology
- Nice to have: Experience with reference data, Security Master, instrument or asset data, or corporate action processing
- Nice to have: Understanding of financial instruments, particularly options, futures and other derivatives
- Nice to have: Experience with third-party data ingestion, internal tooling and workflow automation
- Nice to have: Experience guiding other engineers and working across interconnected services and teams
Benefits
Comp & perks- 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