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Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40+ countries with institutional-grade APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income trading. The company is backed by $400M in funding from top-tier investors including Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, and Y Combinator, and operates a globally distributed team of 400+ members.
As Staff Software Engineer for the Middle East region, you will be a strategic technical leader responsible for architecting and establishing foundational software systems that power Alpaca's financial infrastructure in the region. Your primary responsibility is setting technical direction for software engineering practices, establishing architectural standards and patterns, and ensuring systems meet regulatory compliance requirements while maintaining world-class reliability, scalability, and performance.
You will demonstrate exceptional technical depth and breadth across software engineering, serving as the recognized expert in system design, architecture, and performance optimization. You will independently lead complex, multi-team software initiatives, resolve systemic issues impacting the entire organization, and establish high standards for quality through innovative design solutions. Your influence extends across the entire engineering organization, shaping software strategy, setting organizational processes and standards, and driving long-term technical vision.
In addition to software development, you will establish strategic approaches for infrastructure coordination with regional deployments and cloud/data center operations for UAE and Saudi markets. You will define infrastructure coordination frameworks and ensure strategic alignment between software requirements and infrastructure capabilities. Occasional on-site or regional travel may be required for strategic technical reviews and ensuring infrastructure meets operational and regulatory standards.
This role requires exceptional problem-solving abilities, deep software engineering expertise recognized across the industry, and genuine care for system reliability, team dynamics, and organizational impact. You will serve as the ultimate technical authority on challenging software engineering issues, driving architectural decisions that impact multiple teams and systems.
