# Senior Software Engineer New Markets

**Company:** [Alpaca](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alpaca)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, gRPC, React, Event-Driven Design, Domain-Driven Design, AI Tools, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Financial Apis, Market Data, Double-Entry Accounting, Order Management, Trade Settlement, Slack
**Posted:** 2026-08-25

> Senior full-stack engineer designing and operating scalable brokerage, middle- and back-office systems for international markets. The role requires strong backend architecture skills, event-driven design experience, incident leadership, and the ability to collaborate independently across globally distributed teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems.
- Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, React-based interfaces, and third-party vendor integrations.
- Improve core frameworks to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
- Collaborate with technical leads across regions using synchronous and asynchronous communication.
- Troubleshoot incidents and bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
- Support regulatory requirements and scalable solutions for international growth.
- Serve as operational reliability and engineering lead and incident commander during regional business hours.
- Participate in on-call support as needed.
- Contribute to regional recruitment, mentor engineers, and foster engineering practices and culture.

## Requirements
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset.
- Proficiency in Go or a similar backend language.
- Experience designing robust system architectures and scalable applications.
- Strong communication skills for working with global teams, regulators, vendors, and stakeholders.
- Ability to lead and troubleshoot incidents and bugs.
- Strong computer science fundamentals.
- Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed environment.
- Strategic thinking and ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies.
- Experience with event-driven design.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with AI tooling such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex.
- Startup or fast-growing technology company experience.
- Experience with domain-driven design.
- Experience working with global teams.
- Financial services, online trading, brokerage systems, or fintech experience.
- Experience designing complex financial systems, including double-entry accounting.
- Understanding of financial transaction processing, trade lifecycle management, and settlement.
- Experience with order management, execution, market data processing, and real-time trade processing.
- Experience building scalable, high-availability, multi-currency financial applications.
- Experience with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement.
- Familiarity with financial-market regulatory compliance.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- One-time **USD $500** home-office setup allowance for new hires.
- **USD $150 per month** stipend via a Brex Card.

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