Senior Software Engineer - Payments & Treasury

Role Overview

Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale Alpaca’s Payments & Treasury platform—modern, global systems and services responsible for money movement and treasury capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals with significant autonomy
• Build and maintain a modern global payments and treasury platform using highly scalable, event-driven systems
• Contribute to defining goals and product/engineering direction for treasury expansion
• Develop high-quality microservices and client-facing APIs
• Ensure resilient system integrity, operational scalability, and technical scalability
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and help debug/anticipate issues

Requirements (Must-Haves)

• Strong problem-solving skills and proactive mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration; comfortable working independently and in a team
• Preference for simple and elegant solutions
• At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
• Proven experience building and maintaining microservices
• Experience with client-facing APIs
• Strong coding skills, preferably Go
• Ability to write clean, well tested, maintainable code
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Event-Driven Design
• Containerization and orchestration familiarity, especially Kubernetes
• Cloud experience, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with messaging queues / message brokers

Nice-to-Haves

• Understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices (noted as an asset)

Location

New York, NY