Alpaca is looking to build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of their global payments and treasury platform, aiming to create a seamlessly integrated, comprehensive treasury platform into an industry-leading end-to-end financial infrastructure on a global scale.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
- Experience with client facing APIs
- Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
- Ability to write clean, well tested, and maintainable code
- Experience with domain driven design and event driven design
- Ability to debug issues or better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience with distributed systems design
- Previous experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle
- Experience with double entry accounting and financial ledgers
Responsibilities
- help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca
- building and maintaining a modern global payments and treasury platform
- adopt a modern technology focused approach with highly scalable, event-driven systems
- design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals
- actively participating in defining those goals
- building and maintaining microservices
- Experience with client facing APIs
Other
- Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- The ability to work independently and as part of a team
- A preference for simple and elegant solutions
- Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of payments initiations
- Experience working remotely
- Experience working at a startup, exchange, brokerage, market maker, or hedge fund
