Full-stack Engineer

• Own important, ambiguous problems from initial framing through launch and iteration
• Set direction, align partners, and stay accountable for results
• Partner with product, design, and data to shape priorities, scope work, and define success metrics
• Lead technical decisions across architecture, performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Lead work across teams and systems, build alignment, resolve technical disagreements, and keep complex initiatives moving
• Improve engineering practices through mentorship, reusable patterns, and clear technical guidance
• Use AI throughout engineering work and help the team improve AI workflows and automation
• Participate in an on-call rotation as required

Staff Software Engineer, Product

• Work on post-trade systems for Alpaca’s clearing operations
• Build integrations supporting self-clearing in US equities and options
• Develop infrastructure enabling new financial products and revenue opportunities
• Work on securities finance functions, including fully paid securities lending
• Own projects from ideation through deployment
• Design and build new systems and refine existing systems
• Collaborate with other teams and influence technical and operational decisions
• Participate in the on-call rotation to maintain system reliability

Senior Software Engineer – Clearing

• Build real-time risk controls and decisioning systems for ACH, debit cards, onramps, off-ramps, and other money movement experiences
• Develop signals, models, and product interventions to identify malicious wallets, transactions, applications, and user behavior
• Build scalable KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, case management, and audit systems
• Create pipelines and tools combining on-chain activity, product data, and third-party signals into actionable risk insights
• Partner with product and engineering teams to design safeguards into new features
• Build internal tools for Risk, Compliance, Support, and Security teams to investigate incidents and take action
• Help establish technical foundations and engineering culture for a new high-impact function

Staff Engineer, Full Stack – Trust, Safety & Risk

• Architect, develop, and optimize backend services using Golang and Node.js to support millions of customers worldwide
• Design, build, and maintain REST APIs for integrations across products, platforms, and teams
• Work with relational and non-relational databases, including data modeling, querying, and performance optimization
• Collaborate with Product, UX, and Marketing to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Apply AWS best practices for scalable deployments, security, and cost optimization
• Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and reviews within an Agile/SCRUM environment
• Identify and address technical debt to ensure system stability and scalability
• Document solutions and share knowledge to elevate technical standards across the team

Full-stack Engineer jobs in North America

Staff Software Engineer, Product

Senior Software Engineer – Clearing

Staff Engineer, Full Stack – Trust, Safety & Risk

Product Engineer – Core APIs, Backend