Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more
Job Summary
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to lead API design, governance, and application-layer architecture across Alpaca.
We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world.
Matching Summary
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
API design principles and governance
application-layer architecture
service orchestration and aggregation
API versioning, security, backward compatibility
observability, performance, and reliability
backend and API craftsmanship
Nice-to-have
experience working at a startup
experience working remotely
understanding of financial markets
Key Requirements
8+ years backend engineering experience
Staff-level technical leadership
API design and distributed systems expertise
Golang or Java proficiency
Service orchestration, aggregation patterns, BFF architectures
Observability and operational excellence understanding