Senior Software Engineer India
Who 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. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
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.
Our Team Members
We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core valuesâStay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountableâand are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Your Role:
As a Senior Software Engineer at Alpaca India, you will be a key technical contributor and leader within our engineering organization. Your primary responsibility will be to design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable software systems that power Alpaca's financial infrastructure. You will demonstrate advanced technical competency across multiple areas, including design, architecture, and performance optimization, while actively mentoring team members and influencing team practices and project direction.
In addition to software development, you will also handle infrastructure-related management tasks for our on-premise data center operations in GIFT City. While the actual infrastructure work is performed by our DevOps team and vendors, you will coordinate infrastructure provisioning activities, manage vendor relationships, and ensure alignment between software requirements and infrastructure capabilities. Occasional on-site work at GIFT City data centers may be required for technical reviews, ven Please mention the word CALM and tag RNzYuNjYuOTkuMTYx when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RNzYuNjYuOTkuMTYx). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human. Apply To This Job