Senior Software Engineer – Payments

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Construct and enhance systems and services that serve as the backbone of Alpaca's brokerage infrastructure.

• Create and uphold a modern global payments and treasury platform.

• Design and develop highly scalable, event-driven systems for essential money movement.

• Architect and implement resilient solutions that are both technically and operationally scalable.

• Assist in the development of an integrated treasury platform within the global financial infrastructure.

• Independently design and execute solutions to meet established objectives.

• Engage in defining the goals for both the team and engineering initiatives.

• Contribute to systems that support millions of users trading billions of dollars in assets on a daily basis.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong problem-solving abilities accompanied by a proactive approach.

• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills.

• Capability to work autonomously as well as collaboratively within a team.

• Preference for straightforward and elegant solutions.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in working with systems at scale.

• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining microservices.

• Familiarity with client-facing APIs.

• Proficient coding skills, ideally in Go.

• Ability to produce clean, well-tested, and maintainable code.

• Experience in domain-driven design and event-driven design.

• Aptitude for troubleshooting issues and preemptively avoiding problems.

• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, particularly Kubernetes.

• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.

• Familiarity with messaging queues and message brokers.

• Experience with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.

• Background in distributed systems design.

• Previous experience or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle.

• Experience with double-entry accounting and financial ledgers.

• Nice-to-have: previous experience in the financial sector or knowledge of payment initiations.

• Nice-to-have: experience with financial reconciliation systems.

• Nice-to-have: familiarity with or understanding of the ISO 20022 financial standard.

• Nice-to-have: experience working remotely.

• Nice-to-have: experience at a startup, exchange, brokerage, market maker, or hedge fund.

• A DevOps mindset is considered an asset.

🏝️ Benefits

• 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.