Senior Fullstack Engineer - Operational Automations
- Role
- Fullstack
- Experience
- Senior
- Company size
- Mid-size
Open to Anywhere in North America. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Senior fullstack engineer with 5+ years shipping large-scale production systems. Must have deep Golang expertise, TypeScript/React, SQL/PostgreSQL, observability, and strong operations/business sense. North America location.
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Required skills
Optional skills
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 global 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.
Our Team Members:
We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!
We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Your Role
As an Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will embed directly within brokerage operations functions to systematically eliminate manual work and replace it with durable, auditable software systems. You start by immersing yourself in operational workflows: observing, documenting, and deeply understanding processes end-to-end before designing solutions. Every recurring manual process is treated as a system defect, and every fix you ship is measured by its real-world impact on efficiency and reliability.
You will work closely with licensed brokerage staff, domain experts, and platform engineers to build automations and tooling that allow Alpaca's operations to scale globally without scaling headcount linearly. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable shadowing an operational process and architecting the backend service that replaces it.
Things You Get To Do
- Design, build, test, deploy, and monitor production automations and UIs that remove manual steps and reduce operation time.
- Partner with frontend engineers to productize ops tooling so global teams can run functions with predictable staffing.
- Execute operational procedures to surface painful manual processes prior to automation.
- Instrument and report baseline and outcome metrics (MTTC, manual-steps removed, queue sizes, ops satisfaction) and iterate based on measured impact.
- Produce Platform Opportunity Briefs / RFCs for higher-level platform tooling and automations
- Collaborate with licensed BD leadership, Compliance, and Security to build auditable, safe automations with role-based access and clear runbooks.
- Own the full lifecycle of the systems you build, including automated deployment (CI/CD with tools like ArgoCD and Terraform), proactive monitoring, On-call support rotations and incident response, following a "you build it, you run it" philosophy.
- Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first-class concern to ensure transparency for our auditors and regulators.
Who You Are (must-haves)
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems in production.
- Strong business sense and understanding of operations
- Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library.
- Proven track record of building user-facing features end-to-end with Typescript/React
- Proficient with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
- Demonstrated ability to reason about human workflows as systems, not just software services.
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex requirements into clear technical components and excellent communication skills for working in a cross-functional environment.
- High ownership mindset with bias toward durable, structural fixes over tactical patches.
Who You Might Be (nice-to-haves)
- Knowledge of service oriented architectures
- Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP).
- Financial market (exchange, broker-dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- A passion for financial markets or the desire to learn
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Demonstrable experience in designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including a strong understanding of microservices architecture and API design patterns (e.g., REST, gRPC).
- Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking
How We Take Care of You:
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
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What you'll do
- Embed directly within brokerage operations functions to eliminate manual work and replace it with durable, auditable software systems.
- Observe, document, and deeply understand operational workflows end-to-end before designing solutions.
- Build automations and tooling that allow operations to scale globally without scaling headcount linearly.
- Design, build, test, deploy, and monitor production automations and UIs that remove manual steps and reduce operation time.
- Partner with frontend engineers to productize operations tooling so global teams can run functions with predictable staffing.
- Execute operational procedures to surface painful manual processes before automation.
- Instrument and report baseline and outcome metrics such as MTTC, manual steps removed, queue sizes, and operations satisfaction.
- Iterate based on measured impact.
- Produce Platform Opportunity Briefs and RFCs for higher-level platform tooling and automations.
- Collaborate with licensed BD leadership, Compliance, and Security to build auditable, safe automations with role-based access and clear runbooks.
- Own the full lifecycle of systems, including automated deployment, proactive monitoring, on-call support rotations, and incident response.
- Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as first-class concerns for auditors and regulators.
- Build automations and tooling that allow Alpaca's operations to scale globally without scaling headcount linearly.
- Partner with frontend engineers to productize ops tooling so global teams can run functions with predictable staffing.
- Execute operational procedures to surface painful manual processes prior to automation.
- Instrument and report baseline and outcome metrics such as MTTC, manual steps removed, queue sizes, and operations satisfaction, and iterate based on measured impact.
- Collaborate with licensed broker-dealer leadership, Compliance, and Security to build auditable, safe automations with role-based access and clear runbooks.
- Own the full lifecycle of the systems you build, including automated deployment, proactive monitoring, on-call support rotations, and incident response.
- Embed within brokerage operations functions to eliminate manual work and replace it with durable, auditable software systems.
- Observe, document, and understand operational workflows end-to-end before designing solutions.
- Instrument and report baseline and outcome metrics such as MTTC, manual steps removed, queue sizes, and ops satisfaction, and iterate based on measured impact.
- Instrument and report baseline and outcome metrics such as MTTC, manual steps removed, queue sizes, and operations satisfaction, then iterate based on measured impact.
- Own the full lifecycle of the systems built, including automated deployment, proactive monitoring, on-call support rotations, and incident response.
What they require
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems in production.
- Strong business sense and understanding of operations.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang, including strong command of concurrency models, memory management, and the standard library.
- Proven track record of building user-facing features end-to-end with TypeScript/React.
- Proficient with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
- Demonstrated ability to reason about human workflows as systems, not just software services.
- Experience with observability, tracing, and continuous profiling.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to deconstruct complex requirements into clear technical components.
- Excellent communication skills for working in a cross-functional environment.
- High ownership mindset with bias toward durable, structural fixes over tactical patches.
- Preferred: Knowledge of service-oriented architectures.
- Preferred: Financial market knowledge, including exchanges, broker-dealers, or clearing.
- Preferred: Passion for financial markets or desire to learn.
- Preferred: Demonstrable experience designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including microservices architecture and API design patterns.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models, memory management, and standard library.
- Proficient with SQL and relational databases.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex requirements into clear technical components.
- Preferred: A passion for financial markets or the desire to learn.
- Preferred: Demonstrable experience in designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including microservices architecture and API design patterns.
- Preferred: Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking.
- Preferred: Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Proficiency with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- New hire home-office setup: one-time USD $500.
- Monthly stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card.
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Alpaca is a modern platform for trading. Alpaca's API is the interface for your trading algorithms, bots, or applications to communicate with Alpaca''s brokerage and other services.
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