Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer - Identity

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, and is 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 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 identity team is responsible for building a modern platform for onboarding users, verifying their identity, evaluating risk, and managing their trading accounts. These persons, 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, 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. Things You Get To Do Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on Help us create a global financial identity verification and risk management service Implement backend services and work on designing an architecture where reliability matters Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general Maintain good software quality and test coverage Participate in code reviews Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs You 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 mindset Ability to turn business requirements into a flexible implementation model Excellent communication and collaboration skills Ability to work independently and as part of a team A preference for simple and elegant solutions At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices Strong coding skills, preferably in Go Ability to write clean, well tested, and maintainable code Experience with domain driven design and event driven design Ability to debug issues or better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform Experience with messaging queues and message brokers Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves) Experience in the finance industry Experience with financial identity management, e.g. KYC Experience integrating with external services Experience working remotely Experience working at a startup DevOps mindset is an asset How We Take Care Of You Competitive Salary & Stock Options Benefits: 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 $500 Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy

Build and scale the identity platform for onboarding, identity verification, and risk management for a global fintech user base. Design reliable backend services and contribute to architectural decisions to ensure system scalability and reliability.

Requires at least 3 years of experience with systems at scale, strong proficiency in Go, and expertise in microservices and cloud platforms like GCP. Candidates must be familiar with Kubernetes, relational databases, and event-driven design patterns.

• Health Insurance • Dental Insurance • Vision Insurance • Stock Options • New Hire Home-Office Setup Stipend • Monthly Stipend

• KubernetesSouhaitée
• Résolution de problèmesSouhaitée
• GoSouhaitée
• PostgreSQLSouhaitée

Relevées dans la description du poste. Confirmez les exigences importantes ci-dessus.

• Go
• Microservices
• Kubernetes
• Google Cloud Platform
• PostgreSQL
• Domain Driven Design
• Event Driven Design
• Messaging Queues
• Message Brokers
• Containerization
• System Architecture
• Identity Verification
• Risk Management
• API Design
• Problem Solving
• Collaboration

• Software
• Technology
• Engineering
• Finance & Accounting

Expérience minimale

5+ ans

Langue de l’offre

anglais

Heures de travail

40 heures par semaine

Niveau d’expérience

Mid-Senior level