Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Trading Team. This team is responsible for designing and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers our trading systems – from order routing and execution engines to market connectivity and real-time risk controls. You will work closely with traders, quants, and other engineers to deliver high-performance, reliable, and scalable trading platforms.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in high-stakes, low-latency environments, has strong systems-level engineering experience, and enjoys tackling performance bottlenecks and large-scale distributed systems problems.
About Alpaca
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.