Senior Software Engineer

2 months ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Alpaca Full time
About Alpaca

Alpaca is a leading financial services company that empowers millions of users to trade billions of dollars worth of assets. Our mission is to provide a modern and secure platform for onboarding users, verifying their identity, evaluating risk, and managing their trading accounts.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Identity Team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable and reliable systems that form the foundation of our platform.

Key Responsibilities
  • Contribute to the development of a core system that millions of end users rely on
  • Help create a global financial identity verification and risk management service
  • Implement backend services and design an architecture that prioritizes reliability
  • Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions
  • Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems
  • Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general
  • Maintain good software quality and test coverage
  • Participate in code reviews
  • Troubleshoot on incidents and reported bugs
  • Be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
Requirements
  • Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
  • Ability to turn business requirements into a flexible implementation model
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • A preference for simple and elegant solutions
  • At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
  • Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
  • 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
Nice-to-Haves
  • Experience in the finance industry
  • Experience with financial identity management, e.g. KYC
  • Experience integrating with external services
  • Experience working remotely
  • Experience working at a startup
  • DevOps mindset is an asset


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