Senior Software Engineer - Core Trading
United StatesBackend EngineeringRemote
Summary
Build and scale Alpaca's algorithmic trading platform with deep expertise in trading systems, low-latency infrastructure, and distributed systems architecture.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain Alpaca's algorithmic trading platform
- Design and architect high-performance trading infrastructure handling stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income
- Write production code across frontend and backend systems
- Make critical decisions about system architecture for high availability and performance
- Implement Order Management Systems (OMS) and Risk Management Systems (RMS)
Requirements
- Previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading)
- Strong coding skills in C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python
- Experience with low latency and high throughput optimization
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems, and concurrency control
- System design skills with object-oriented data modeling and service-oriented architectures
- Experience implementing Order Management Systems (OMS) and Risk Management Systems (RMS)
- Analytical, data-oriented mindset
Nice-to-Haves
- Algo trading experience (professional or personal)
- FIX protocol knowledge
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling, and benchmarking
- Financial market knowledge (exchanges, broker-dealers, clearing)
- Experience with financial ledgers
- Statistical and quantitative analysis skills
- Experience with GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes
Skills
C++GoRustJavaPythonScalaZigDistributed SystemsLow Latency SystemsOrder Management SystemsRisk Management SystemsMessaging QueuesConcurrency ControlGCPDocker