Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.
Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We’re deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
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 daily .
The payments team is responsible for building and maintaining a modern global payments and treasury platform. Resilient engineering,



technical and operational scalability, and system integrity are crucial to our success.
We have ambitious plans to build a seamlessly integrated comprehensive treasury platform into an industry leading end-to-end financial infrastructure on a global scale. Alpaca has and will continue to prove ourselves as an innovative market leader and this team is a core component of our growth across global markets and asset classes.
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. An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices are also outstanding assets we actively look for.
Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
Ability to write clean, well tested, and maintainable code
Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
Previous experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle
Experience with double entry accounting and financial ledgers
Experience with financial reconciliation systems
Experience working remotely
Experience working at a startup, exchange, brokerage, market maker, or hedge fund
DevOps mindset is an asset
Competitive Salary & Stock Options
New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500

📌 Remote - Senior Software Engineer Shop (Canada)
🏢 Alpaca
📍 Canada