# Senior Fullstack Engineer - Operational Automations

**Company:** [Alpaca](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alpaca)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, TypeScript, React, SQL, Postgres, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo CD, CI/CD, rest, gRPC, Microservices, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Builds and operates full-stack automations and UIs that replace manual brokerage operations workflows with durable, auditable systems. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Golang expertise, and end-to-end TypeScript/React development experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, deploy, and monitor production automations and UIs that remove manual steps and reduce operations time.
- Partner with frontend engineers to productize operations tooling for predictable staffing across global teams.
- Execute operational procedures to identify manual processes suitable for automation.
- Instrument and report baseline and outcome metrics, including MTTC, manual steps removed, queue sizes, and operations satisfaction.
- Produce Platform Opportunity Briefs and RFCs for platform tooling and automations.
- Collaborate with licensed business development leadership, Compliance, and Security to build auditable, safe automations with role-based access and clear runbooks.
- Own the full lifecycle of systems, including automated deployment, proactive monitoring, on-call support, and incident response.
- Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as first-class concerns.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping and operating complex, large-scale production systems.
- Strong business sense and understanding of operations.
- Deep hands-on expertise in Golang, including concurrency models, memory management, and the standard library.
- Experience building user-facing features end-to-end with TypeScript and React.
- Proficiency with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
- Ability to reason about human workflows as systems.
- Experience with observability, tracing, and continuous profiling.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills.
- High ownership mindset and a bias toward durable structural fixes.

## Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge of service-oriented architectures.
- Experience with major cloud platforms, especially Google Cloud.
- Financial markets knowledge, including exchanges, broker-dealers, or clearing.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience designing and building distributed systems, microservices, and API patterns such as REST and gRPC.
- Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- One-time $500 new-hire home-office setup benefit.
- $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.

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