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Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries. The company provides institutional-grade APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income trading, supporting over 10 million brokerage accounts. Backed by $400M in funding from top-tier investors including Spark Capital and Y Combinator, Alpaca operates a globally distributed team of 400+ members.
As a Senior Fullstack Engineer focused on Operational Automations, you will embed directly within brokerage operations to systematically eliminate manual work and replace it with durable, auditable software systems. You'll 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 is measured by real-world impact on efficiency and reliability.
Key responsibilities include: designing, building, testing, deploying, and monitoring production automations and UIs that remove manual steps; partnering with frontend engineers to productize ops tooling for global teams; executing operational procedures to surface painful manual processes; instrumenting and reporting baseline metrics (MTTC, manual-steps removed, queue sizes); producing Platform Opportunity Briefs and RFCs; collaborating with licensed BD leadership, Compliance, and Security to build auditable automations with role-based access; and owning the full lifecycle of systems you build, including CI/CD deployment, proactive monitoring, on-call rotations, and incident response.
You must have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale production systems. Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang (concurrency models, memory management, standard library) and a proven track record building user-facing features end-to-end with TypeScript/React are required. You'll need proficiency with SQL and relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL), demonstrated ability to reason about human workflows as systems, experience with observability and tracing, exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, and a high ownership mindset favoring durable structural fixes.
Nice-to-haves include knowledge of service-oriented architectures, experience with major cloud platforms (GCP preferred), financial market knowledge (exchanges, broker-dealers, clearing), and Docker/Kubernetes experience.
