# Senior Software Engineer - Tax Platform

**Company:** [Alpaca](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alpaca)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Temporal, Redpanda, gRPC, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana
**Posted:** 2026-05-14

> Architects, builds, and scales mission-critical tax platform systems using Golang microservices, Temporal workflows, and Redpanda data pipelines to ensure compliance and accuracy in financial operations. Requires 5+ years experience with deep Golang and distributed systems expertise.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities

- Design, build, and operate highly scalable, resilient, and secure microservices and data processing systems using idiomatic **Golang**.
- Model complex, long-running tax reporting business logic as durable, stateful workflows using **Temporal** to ensure correctness and reliability.
- Implement and optimize data pipelines consuming financial events from **Redpanda**, ensuring data quality, timeliness, and integrity.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams of tax analysts, legal experts, and product managers to translate complex and evolving regulatory requirements into robust, maintainable, and verifiable software solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship, driving best practices in distributed system design, **API definition with gRPC**, code quality, and advanced testing strategies.
- Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first-class concern to ensure transparency for our auditors and regulators.
- Own the full lifecycle of your services, including automated deployment (**CI/CD** with tools like **Jenkins** and **Terraform**), proactive monitoring, and incident response, following a \"you build it, you run it\" philosophy.

## Must-Haves

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems in production.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in **Golang**, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library.
- Demonstrable experience in designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including a strong understanding of microservices architecture and **API design patterns** (e.g., REST, **gRPC**).
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex requirements into clear technical components and excellent communication skills for working in a cross-functional environment.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Hands-on experience with **Temporal** or similar durable execution systems like Cadence or **AWS Step Functions**.
- Experience with **Redpanda** or **Apache Kafka**, with a solid understanding of the Kafka protocol.
- Production experience with **gRPC** and **Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)**.
- Proficiency with **AWS**, containerization (**Docker**, **Kubernetes**), Infrastructure as Code (**Terraform**), and **CI/CD** pipelines (e.g., **Jenkins**).
- Experience with modern observability tools like **Prometheus**, **Grafana**, and distributed tracing systems.
- Prior experience in FinTech, RegTech, or another highly regulated industry with familiarity with financial data or compliance systems.

## How We Take Care of You

- 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

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