Lead Software Engineer - Platform Team
Alpaca
Who We Are:
Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding.
Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services.
Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contributions as well as community building.
The Alpaca Team:
We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company.
As a Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading a talented group of software engineers in designing, implementing, maintaining the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.
Your job is to be the tech lead engineer of the platform team. In this role you will be designing and architecting our platform by wearing many different hats in our small team. As an experienced engineer, you will write tons of code and make critical decisions about how to deliver the best experience to our internal engineering teams and our customers.
In the platform team you will be writing well structured applications in go with testing and observability in mind (exposing metrics that can be visualized and used for alerts). You will containerize into optimized Docker images, you will also design helm-charts for deploying to Kubernetes.
You are the ideal candidate if you are a native speaker of K8S, Golang, Docker, and you have extensive, hands on experience with microservices and event driven architecture. You are even more awesome, if you developed Kafka consumers / producers.
Required (hands on experience!):
- Kubernetes experience
- deep understanding of K8S objects and cloud native application development
- written Helm charts
- Docker experience
- written highly optimized Dockerfiles
- Golang experience (or other modern compiled statically typed languages):
- concurrent programing
- writes well structured / good abstraction / "object oriented" code
- writes well covered code (unit/integration/e2e tests)
- experience with relational databases (Postgres)
- with focus on optimized queries on huge tables
- tech-lead and team-lead experience
Nice to have:
- has a black-belt in Kubernetes:
- CKA/CKAD
- have written Kubernetes operators
- Tilt experience
- developer experience with Kafka/Redpanda
- created producers and consumers
- have used message serialization technologies
- Protobuf
- Flatbuffer
- experience in various observability tools
- Prometheus
- Alertmanager
- Grafana
- Loki
- knowledges in algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability and concurrency control
- devops mindset (understanding of CI pipelines, release procedures)
- understanding of equity/crypto trading
How We Take Care of You:
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
- Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.