Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We’re deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier general investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Clearing team you’ll work on what happens after the trade is made. During the past couple years we’ve become self-clearing in US equities , US options , and this is the team at the heart of those achievements. Beyond core clearing, we also work on securities finance related functions and building the infrastructure that allows us to launch new product offerings, like Fully Paid Securities Lending .



Work in a team where we value quality of thinking, excellence in execution, practical solution and willingness to take responsibility, instead of tenure, hierarchy, or arguing about the theoretical benefits of things that don’t matter Own projects from ideation to deployment, cutting through ambiguity to build what’s necessary, not just what’s asked for. Learn about things you never knew existed but are instrumental in keeping the financial markets healthy and functioning Participate in our on-call rotation to ensure our systems are in tip-top shape. You are deeply interested in how traditional financial markets work You (have taken and) can take the lead on a project: we’ll describe what we’re trying to fix or build, who to reach out to if you need help, and you’ll handle the rest You want to see the long-term impact of your decisions and take on larger and larger efforts, leveraging the expertise you’ve gained along the way. You have experience working at startups and know that not everything is perfect and you’re the one who helps us trend towards that goal. You also understand that we have a business to run and priorities can shift based on market needs. You have good foundational knowledge of how computers work, how the internet works, how databases work, how distributed systems behave and misbehave, etc. Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes You have 5+ years of hands-on experience building reliable and distributed systems Competitive Salary & Stock Options New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500

📌 Senior Project Developer (España)
🏢 Alpaca
📍 España