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Develop and operate authentication, authorization, and identity-provider services for APIs, customer products, and internal tools. Build Go backend services, gRPC/REST APIs, shared libraries, and React/TypeScript interfaces, with occasional Java work. Own services end to end, including data modeling, deployments, monitoring, troubleshooting, integrations, testing, incident response, and on-call support.

Lead Alpaca’s global Trading API customer experience organization, including General and VIP Support. Build a follow-the-sun coverage model, establish service standards and KPIs, improve support through data, AI, automation, and self-service, and develop high-performing teams. Partner with Product, Engineering, Trading, Operations, Compliance, and Sales to resolve recurring issues, improve customer workflows, and support institutional trading customers.

Drive the Trading API and Alpaca Connect Marketplace roadmap, including partner onboarding, app discovery, OAuth experiences, and platform utilities. Define product strategy and requirements, analyze customer behavior and ROI, own product metrics, optimize acquisition and retention funnels, and lead go-to-market initiatives that increase adoption, trading volume, and revenue. Collaborate with engineering, design, data, marketing, sales, partnerships, and operations.

Build and scale global payments and treasury systems using resilient, event-driven, microservice-based architecture. Design and implement cloud-native services, client-facing APIs, distributed systems, payment rails, financial ledgers, and reconciliation solutions. Collaborate independently and across teams, troubleshoot complex issues, maintain high-quality tested code, and contribute to technical and product goal definition.

Command high-severity production incidents from declaration through mitigation, coordinating technical responders, severity decisions, escalations, stakeholder communications, regional handoffs, and post-incident follow-up. Maintain accurate incident timelines, ensure retrospectives and accountable action items, and improve response processes through automation. The role requires participation in a global 24x7 incident commander roster and familiarity with fintech and regulated API-driven platforms.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and build scalable market data systems, improve API architecture, and enhance overall system performance, contributing to Alpaca's infrastructure for trading financial assets.

Lead insider risk and data loss investigations from triage to closure, operate and tune DLP across environments, build detections and workflows, partner with HR/Legal/Compliance/IT, mature insider risk program, support audits, and mentor others.

Embed with brokerage operations to observe and replace manual workflows with auditable automations and UIs. Design, build, deploy, monitor, and run production systems; instrument outcome metrics; collaborate with compliance, security, and domain experts; own full lifecycle including CI/CD, on-call, and incident response.

Operate and improve brokerage platform reliability: on-call incident response, define SLIs/SLOs, enhance observability, deploy infrastructure via GitOps, and own PostgreSQL performance, migrations, HA/DR, and mentoring.