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North America Unlimited PTO

  • Work on features to increase speed and functionality of trading infrastructure, including new algorithms and exchange integrations.
  • Play an active role in executing system architecture and roadmap, collaborating with Product Management.
  • Grow to become an expert in entire trading systems and use deductive reasoning to solve complex problems.

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Americas

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  • Write high-quality code and make critical decisions to deliver the best customer experience.
  • Work with low-level CPU hardware and concurrency for high throughput and availability.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure company. The team is 380+ globally distributed members with a culture of curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

Global

  • Build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca's global payments and treasury platform.
  • Operate in an industry where money movement is critical, using modern, event-driven, and highly scalable architectures.
  • Collaborate with a distributed team to design and implement solutions with autonomy, focusing on quality and resilience.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. Our global team of 380+ members values curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

US

  • Own the architecture of the Nexus Exchange end-to-end while staying hands-on in production code.
  • Lead the engineering org, managing timelines, roadmaps, and resourcing across senior engineers and pods.
  • Drive product and customer outcomes with high-frequency iteration and a business-first mindset.

Nexus is a blockchain built to natively embed the world’s financial system into one compounding system, unifying infrastructure across chains. Headquartered in San Francisco with a growing presence in Buenos Aires, the cross-continental team of engineers and cryptographers is backed by investors like Pantera and Lightspeed.

Global

  • Design and build highly scalable platform services to improve reliability and performance of the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE).
  • Lead development of production-grade backend services and APIs supporting multiple internal stakeholders and platform consumers.
  • Drive architectural improvements enabling vertical and horizontal platform scaling while improving workflow execution durability and resilience.

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing capital markets onchain and powering decentralized finance (DeFi). Chainlink Labs, the core developer, is a large global organization with a remote-first culture, tens of billions in transaction value, and partnerships with major financial institutions.

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US

  • Build and scale mission-critical order and execution management infrastructure in Rust.
  • Design systems balancing low-latency execution, fault tolerance, and correctness across distributed trading workflows.
  • Translate evolving regulatory and market structure requirements into reliable, testable platform capabilities.

Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm modernizing the brokerage ecosystem with a cloud-native clearing and custody system. Founded in 2018, the company is a small, growing team with a meritocratic culture that champions collaboration.

Global

  • Architect and own end-to-end full-stack surfaces of the marketplace loop, delivering high-performance tools and developer-facing onboarding systems.
  • Design agent-native user experiences with robust MCP server capabilities, sandboxed test environments, and elegant CLI/SDK generation workflows.
  • Scale and protect transaction infrastructure by building high-reliability pipelines for identity verification, usage attribution, and multi-party settlement.

Kong Inc. is a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified platform enables organizations to secure, manage, and monetize intelligence across APIs and AI models.

Global

  • Build and maintain distributed systems for custody of digital assets, including cash, coins, NFTs, and staking.
  • Lead medium-to-large projects, breaking down tasks, estimating scope, and ensuring code quality and testing.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor team members, and share knowledge to avoid single points of failure.

Anchorage Digital builds a digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto through custody, staking, and trading. Founded in 2017, it has over 600 employees and is valued over $3 billion, with a culture focused on security and inclusion.

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USA

  • Design, develop, and operate ledger and payments services for accurate crypto and fiat money movement.
  • Build scalable APIs and data models to support new transaction types while ensuring correctness and auditability.
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Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by the Winklevoss twins, offering secure crypto products in over 70 countries. The publicly traded company emphasizes building diverse teams and fostering an open, fair, and secure cryptoeconomy.

LATAM

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  • Build microservices in Golang and work with platform engineers.
  • Respond to production issues and communicate with client technical teams.

zerohash is a leading crypto infrastructure platform that powers digital money for banks and fintechs. Founded in 2017, it has raised over $280M and prioritizes independence, collaboration, and transparency.