Senior Fullstack Engineer (Operational Automations)

Join Alpaca, a leading fintech company, as a Senior Fullstack Engineer. In this role, you will work directly with brokerage operations to eliminate manual processes and replace them with durable, auditable software systems. You will design, build, test, deploy, and monitor production automations and UIs, collaborate with licensed brokerage staff and domain experts, and own the full lifecycle of the systems you build. This position offers a competitive salary, stock options, and comprehensive benefits.

• Immersing yourself in operational workflows to understand processes and design solutions.
• Designing, building, testing, deploying, and monitoring production automations and UIs.
• Collaborating with licensed BD leadership, Compliance, and Security to build auditable, safe automations.

• High ownership mindset with bias toward durable, structural fixes over tactical patches
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems in production
• Strong business sense and understanding of operations
• Proven track record of building user-facing features end-to-end with Typescript/React
• Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library
• Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling
• Demonstrated ability to reason about human workflows as systems, not just software services
• Proficient with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
• 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
• Knowledge of service oriented architectures
• Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
• 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)
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• A passion for financial markets or the desire to learn
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Financial market (exchange, broker-dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge
• Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking