Senior Software Engineer - Identity

Tokyo
Remote OK
Full-time
October 18, 2024

Note: While 100% remote, this position gives preference to candidates living near the Greater Tokyo area.

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding.
Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services.
Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open-source contributions as well as community building.

The Alpaca Team:

We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company.

Your Role:

As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.

The identity team is responsible for building a modern platform for onboarding users, verifying their identity, evaluating risk, and managing their trading accounts. These persons, businesses and accounts are foundational components of the Alpaca system, and we need to build new capabilities while achieving very high automation rates. We are expanding the platform to handle identity verification on a global basis, and to support our growing set of account types.

We are looking for senior engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals. An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices are also great assets we actively look for.

Things You Get To Do:

Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on
Help us create a global financial identity verification and risk management service
Implement backend services and work on designing an architecture where reliability matters
Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions
Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems
Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general
Maintain good software quality and test coverage
Participate in code reviews
Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
Ability to turn business requirements into a flexible implementation model
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
A preference for simple and elegant solutions
At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
Ability to write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code
Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design
Ability to debug issues or better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes
Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

Experience in the finance industry
Experience with financial identity management, e.g. KYC
Experience integrating with external services
Experience working remotely
Experience working at a startup
DevOps mindset is an asset

How We Take Care of You:

Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.
New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Work with awesome hard-working people, super smart and cool clients, and innovative partners from around the world

Alpaca is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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About Alpaca

Alpaca, founded by two Japanese, is a US-headquartered fintech startup providing API access to stock and crypto trading.

While being regulated as a financial service in various countries, Alpaca builds a global investment platform from the ground up by using the latest technologies. The series-B company is backed by a number of notable VCs including YC and has raised more than $100m to date.