Responsibilities
Build Alpaca’s proprietary services for advisory products including block trading, portfolio management, and IRA services.
Design and architect highly available, scalable, concurrent, low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
Write production code across frontend and backend systems, databases, and financial transaction infrastructure.
Develop and implement Order Management Systems and other heavily loaded financial transactional systems.
Make critical technical decisions focused on customer experience, system performance, and long-term maintainability.
Requirements
Previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems, including OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, or quantitative trading.
Strong system design skills in object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, and system abstraction.
Experienced software engineering background with senior-level experience preferred.




Coding ability in low- and high-level languages such as C, C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, and Python.
Experience optimizing low-latency and high-throughput systems.
Experience with messaging queues and message brokers.
Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low-latency systems, and concurrency control.
Analytical, data-oriented mindset and experience developing and implementing OMS or highly loaded financial transactional systems.
FIX protocol knowledge preferred.
Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling, and benchmarking preferred.
Benefits
Competitive salary and stock options.
Health benefits.
One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup payment.
USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
Globally distributed work environment.

📌 Senior Software Engineer (España)
🏢 Alpaca
📍 España