Software Engineer - Advisory Suite
Alpaca
Remote
United Kingdom, Hungary
entry level to mid-level
August 27, 2026
$100k+
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Job Description
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:
Your job is to build Alpaca's proprietary set of services to meet our users' expectations for high quality and performance in their advisory service (Block Trading Portfolio management IRA etc).
This opportunity is similar to joining AWS or Heroku in their early days designing and architecting our platform by wearing many different hats in our small team.
As an experienced engineer you will write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our customers. This certainly requires deep knowledge in both frontend and backend databases and distributed systems as well as broad experience from low to high level in CPU-level hardware for high throughput robust concurrency system design abstract distributed system architecture for high availability and object-oriented data modelling with long-term growth in mind.
Joining an early-stage startup the payoff to this highly demanding environment will be worth the effort.
You must have previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS EMS exchanges market making algorithmic trading quant trading).
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
- System design skills with object-oriented data modeling service-oriented architectures system abstraction
- Strong experienced software engineer with Senior experience is preferred
- Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++ Go Zig Rust Java Scala Python
- Low latency and high throughput optimization
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Analytical data-oriented mindset and skills
- Knowledge of algorithms distributed systems scalability high availability databases low latency systems and concurrency control
- Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and/or high loaded financial transactional systems.
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
- FIX protocol knowledge
- Experience with observability tracing continuous profiling 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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