Senior Software Engineer - Payments & Treasury

Who We Are:Alpaca is a fast-growing Series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding. Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services. Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contributions as well as community building.The Alpaca Team:We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more. We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company.Your RoleAs 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 that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets daily.The payments team is responsible for building and maintaining a modern global payments and treasury platform. Operating in an industry in which money movement is a critical component, we adopt a modern technology focused approach with highly scalable, event-driven systems. Resilient engineering, technical and operational scalability, and system integrity are crucial to our success.We have ambitious plans to build a seamlessly integrated comprehensive treasury platform into an industry leading end-to-end financial infrastructure on a global scale. Alpaca has and will continue to prove ourselves as an innovative market leader and this team is a core component of our growth across global markets and asset classes.We are looking for senior engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and 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 are also great assets we actively look for.Who You Are (Must-Haves):Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindsetExcellent communication and collaboration skillsThe ability 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 microservicesExperience with client facing APIsStrong 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 messaging queues and message brokersExperience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQLExperience with distributed systems designPrevious experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycleExperience with double entry accounting and financial ledgersWho You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of payments initiationsExperience with financial reconciliation systemsExperience with or understanding of ISO20022 financial standardExperience working remotelyExperience working at a startup, exchange, brokerage, market maker, or hedge fundDevOps mindset is an assetHow We Take Care of You:Competitive Salary & Stock OptionsBenefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex CardWork with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the worldAlpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.Recruitment Privacy Policy #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-17