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Senior Software Engineer - Crypto

Alpaca

2-6 years

Remote

1 vacancy

Alpaca

posted 3mon ago

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Job Description

This role is to lead all Crypto related engineering including our spot and derivatives exchanges licensed in the US and Bahamas.

Architect, spec and build the perpetual futures exchange including high-performance matching engine, collateral/liquidation/risk engine, public API, kyc/aml, regulatory reporting, settlement clearing and custody, banking, order management, accounting, analytics and compliance integrations.

Our vision for a regulated, centralized multi-asset exchange is designed with modern custody and risk management measures in mind as we prepare for how regulations will change in a post-FTX world. This is a blank canvas opportunity to design a state-of-the-art crypto exchange with the many synergies arising from our renowned securities brokerage with its unimpeachable track record in safeguarding customer assets. We are uniquely positioned to become the pre-eminent brand in global financial investment infrastructure for both crypto and tradfi combined.

Alpaca is 100% distributed and remote. This role will be reporting directly to the Head of Crypto for the initial phase and then to the CTO once the product is more mature.

Things You Get To Do:

Design highly scalable, mission-critical crypto spot and derivatives exchange trading millions of dollars from day one
Implement backend services and web applications
Maintain good software quality and test coverage
Participate in code reviews
Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

Experience building a CLOB exchange, HFT, market-making, high performance matching engines, margin/liquidation engines or other high-throughput low-latency, regulated, fault-tolerant financial system
Experience in building crypto
BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
*Minimum 4 years of experience of backend software development
Experience with at least one modern programming language like GoLang, Python, C/C++, NodeJS, Java, etc. Our platform is based in Golang
SQL or relational database skills
Hands-on knowledge with Bash, Linux Docker. Kubernetes experience is a plus
Excited about what we are building at Alpaca

*The position level and title will vary according to candidates experience and skills

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