Software Engineer - Crypto

Alpaca
EU, Latin America, Namibia, North America
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Code review","Incident troubleshooting","Quality focus"]

Design, build, and maintain the crypto exchange and market-making systems that power Alpaca Crypto and serve millions of traders. You’ll develop backend services and web applications, including crypto wallet, funding, and tokenization services, while ensuring strong software quality through testing, code reviews, and incident troubleshooting. The role involves building at scale with low-latency, regulated financial systems alongside a cross-functional team.

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Alpaca
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Software Engineer - Crypto

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Job Summary

Design, build, and maintain the crypto exchange and market-making systems that power Alpaca Crypto and serve millions of traders. You’ll develop backend services and web applications, including crypto wallet, funding, and tokenization services, while ensuring strong software quality through testing, code reviews, and incident troubleshooting. The role involves building at scale with low-latency, regulated financial systems alongside a cross-functional team.
Location: EU, Latin America, Namibia, North America
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect, design, build, and maintain Alpaca’s crypto exchange and market-making systems.
  • •Develop crypto wallet, funding, and tokenization services.
  • •Implement backend services and web applications.
  • •Maintain strong software quality, including test coverage and participation in code reviews.
  • •Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs; may be asked to join on-call support for timely engineering projects.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceEquityHome OfficeStipend

Key Requirements

  • •Knowledge of trading systems and experience building exchanges, market-making systems, matching engines, or other high-throughput, low-latency, regulated, fault-tolerant financial systems.
  • •Experience building crypto systems.
  • •BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
  • •Minimum 4 years of backend software development experience.
  • •Experience with modern programming languages (platform based in Go/Golang) and messaging queues/message brokers, plus SQL or relational database skills.
Experience:4+ yearsCryptoFinancial servicesTrading systemsBrokerage
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:Code reviewIncident troubleshootingQuality focus
Certifications:CKACKAD
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoLangGoC/C++Crypto walletTokenizationMessaging queuesMessage brokersSQLBashLinuxDockerKubernetesCI/CDAWSGCPAzureAgile/ScrumMicroservices

Company Brief

Alpaca
Provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure for algorithmic and automated stock trading, enabling fintechs and developers to build trading applications with commission-free market access and custody services.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2015
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