alpaca

Senior Fullstack Engineer - Operational Automations

At a Glance

Location
North America
Experience
5+ years
Posted
2026-05-11T19:22:03-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AgileDockerGCPGoKubernetesMicroservicesPostgreSQLReactSQLScrumTypeScript

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering
  • Finance

Requirements

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

Demonstrated ability to reason about human workflows as systems, not just software services.

Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling

Compensation & 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.

Responsibilities

, 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.

Design, build, test, deploy, and monitor production automations and UIs that remove manual steps and reduce operation time.

About the Company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our

recent Series D funding round

brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

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 9 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