Staff Software Engineer, New Market

Job Description Roles & Responsibilities 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 380+ 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 values Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply. Your Role As a Staff Software Engineer at Alpaca Middle East, you will be a strategic technical leader responsible for architecting, designing, and establishing the foundational software systems that power Alpaca's financial infrastructure in the region. Your primary responsibility will be setting the technical direction for our software engineering practices, establishing architectural standards and patterns, and ensuring our systems meet regulatory compliance requirements while maintaining world-class reliability, scalability, and performance. You will demonstrate exceptional technical depth and breadth across software engineering, serving as the recognized expert in system design, architecture, and performance optimization. You will independently lead complex, multi-team software initiatives, resolve systemic issues that impact the entire organization, and establish high standards for quality through innovative design solutions and engineering excellence. Your influence extends across the entire engineering organization, shaping software strategy, setting organizational processes and standards, and driving long-term technical vision. In addition to software development, you will establish strategic approaches for infrastructure coordination with regional deployments and cloud or data center operations as needed for UAE and Saudi markets. While day-to-day infrastructure work may be performed, you will define infrastructure coordination frameworks,, and ensure strategic alignment between software requirements and infrastructure capabilities. Occasional on-site or regional travel may be required for strategic technical reviews, and ensuring infrastructure meets operational and regulatory standards. This role requires exceptional problem-solving abilities, deep software engineering expertise recognized across the industry, and genuine care for system reliability, team dynamics, and organizational impact. You will serve as the ultimate technical authority on challenging software engineering issues, driving architectural decisions that impact multiple teams and systems. Your work will have organization-wide impact, influencing how software is designed, developed, and operated across Alpaca's Middle East operations. Things You Get To Do Software Architecture and Strategic Development Architect and establish foundational software systems using Go or similar languages, setting technical direction for organizational software development Design and establish event-driven architectures, message queues, and asynchronous processing patterns that serve as organizational standards Build and maintain APIs, services, and integrations that power Alpaca's financial infrastructure, establishing architectural patterns and best practices Optimize system performance at scale, identifying bottlenecks and implementing efficient solutions that influence organizational performance standards Ensure systems meet reliability, scalability, and regulatory compliance requirements, establishing compliance frameworks for the organization Establish coding standards and best practices, writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that serves as examples for the organization Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and performant systems that meet business requirements and serve as architectural blueprints Technical Leadership and Strategic Expertise Demonstrate exceptional technical competency recognized across the organization and industry, serving as the ultimate authority across multiple areas including design, architecture, and performance optimization Lead complex, multi-team software initiatives from conception to delivery, establishing organizational standards and best practices Resolve systemic issues that impact the entire organization, applying deep technical knowledge and innovative problem-solving approaches Serve as the recognized expert on challenging technical issues, providing strategic guidance and solutions that influence organizational technical direction Establish and maintain high standards for quality across the organization, ensuring robust testing, code review, and efficient design solutions Evaluate and recommend strategic technical solutions, considering trade-offs between performance, maintainability, cost, and long-term business objectives, influencing organizational technical decisions Infrastructure Coordination and Strategic Management Establish infrastructure coordination frameworks and strategies with DevOps and vendors for regional deployments. Desired Candidate Profile 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of architecting and building complex, production systems at scale Exceptional technical competency recognized across the organization and industry, with deep expertise across multiple areas including design, architecture, and performance optimization Expert-level mastery of Go or similar backend languages, with exceptional system design and architecture skills, and the ability to establish organizational architectural standards Proven track record of building scalable, high-availability applications that handle complex business logic and high transaction volumes, with experience establishing organizational scalability patterns Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and system design principles, with the ability to establish organizational engineering practices Extensive experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, pub/sub systems, and asynchronous processing patterns, with the ability to establish organizational architectural patterns Proven ability to independently lead complex, multi-team software initiatives and resolve systemic issues that impact the entire organization Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex issues across multiple systems and establish preventive measures Extensive experience with testing methodologies, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, with the ability to establish organizational testing standards Deep expertise with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), with strategic understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures Demonstrated leadership within executive and strategic discussions, recognized as the ultimate authority on challenging technical issues across the organization Proven ability to influence organizational practices, strategic project direction, and cross-team collaborations at the highest levels Experience playing a leading role in setting organizational processes and standards, shaping long-term software strategies and technical vision Exceptional mentorship capabilities with experience actively mentoring engineers across all levels (junior, intermediate, and senior) Ability to foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across the entire organization Track record of consistently owning strategic initiative outcomes and providing guidance that influences organizational technical direction Exhibits exceptional problem-solving abilities and consistently drives organizational quality improvements Obsession with performant, defect-free, maintainable code and systems, establishing organizational quality standards Ability to identify root causes and implement long-term strategic solutions that prevent future issues, not just quick fixes Establishes and maintains high standards for quality across the organization, ensuring robust testing and efficient design solutions Proactive strategic mindset with the ability to foresee organizational problems before they occur and establish preventive measures Exceptional communication skills to collaborate effectively with team members, stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and executive leadership Ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership, influencing strategic decisions Experience working in a collaborative environment, leading organizational discussions and driving strategic decisions Ability to balance multiple strategic priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment while maintaining focus on long-term objectives Willingness and ability to travel occasionally within the Middle East region for strategic on-site work and vendor coordination Drives organizational learning and experimentation, pioneering adoption of cutting-edge technologies and establishing organizational technical direction Stays current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies, sharing insights that influence organizational strategy Actively seeks out new knowledge and applies innovative solutions to problems that impact the entire organization Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies, tools, and methodologies, establishing organizational best practices for technology adoption Experience working with financial systems, APIs, or fintech applications (Preferred) Understanding of financial transaction processing, accounting principles, or regulatory compliance (Preferred) Familiarity with domain-driven design and event-driven design patterns (Preferred) Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and service-oriented architectures (Preferred) Company Industry BankingFinancial ServicesBroking Department / Functional Area Engineering Keywords Staff Software EngineerNew Markets Middle East Get real-time job updates only on 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