Senior Software Engineer – Advisory SuiteWho We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and 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 9 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 top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.Your Role: We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Advisory Suite team, which powers key components of our investment management platform. You will work on critical financial engines, including portfolio rebalancing, trade aggregation, tax optimization, and fixed income analytics. Design, build, and maintain backend services for:Tax lot accounting and optimizationCollaborate with product, data and other engineering teams to translate business and financial logic into performant systemsParticipate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and sprint planning5+ years of professional software development experience~ Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and systems design~ Familiarity with time-series data processing and numerical accuracy (especially for VWAP/TWAP)~ Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment
New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500