Jobs at Alpaca

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders–including finance, operations, and product teams–to deliver high-impact features/projects
• Build backend systems/components with integrity, maintainability, scalability, and stability in mind

• Kubernetes experience

deep understanding of K8S objects and cloud native application development
written Helm charts

• deep understanding of K8S objects and cloud native application development

• Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems
• Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems

• Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s systems
• Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.

• 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

• Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Assist clients and broker partners by being the first point of contact on service needs and issues
• Submit and process certain operational requests as instructed by the brokerage team and/or client/broker partners. Examples include funds distributions, cash and stock journals, account updates, ACATs initiation, and other operational tasks.

• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with GAAP and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Oversee all financial transactions, including crypto assets, and ensure compliance with both internal policies and external regulations.

• Act as primary contact for B2B/enterprise customers, accountable for driving healthy and constant relationships with key contacts throughout the customer lifecycle - from app launch to renewal.
• Ensure customer satisfaction, retention, and success.

• Design highly scalable, mission-critical crypto spot and derivatives exchange trading millions of dollars from day one
• Implement backend services and web applications

• 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

• Sales process : Driving product discovery to help formulate a product MVP as well as providing product demonstrations.
• Onboarding Integration : Supporting the integration project as the primary technical resource

• Management of our postgreSQL database clusters - scale, fine-tune, improve stability and observability as we grow
• Manage our Kubernetes clusters, and infrastructure service components that are used by our applications - such as message brokers, monitoring, continuous delivery and others

• Operational Efficiency Analysis:

Analyze current operational processes to identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements.
Develop and implement data-driven strategies to streamline operations and reduce costs.

• Analyze current operational processes to identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements.

• Strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience is preferred
• Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python

• Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on
• Work on self-clearing and help us join the elite club of self-clearing brokers