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# Software Engineer - Core Trading

- **Company:** ALPACA
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Algorithmic Trading, Data Analysis, C++ (Programming Language), Databases, Concurrency Controls, Distributed Systems, Financial Information EXchange, Message Broker, Object-Oriented Software Development, Risk Management Information Systems, Service-Oriented Architecture, System Availability, Low Latency, Software Coding, Docker
- **Published:** September 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pm0mcocm2v

## About the Role

* Strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience is preferred
 * Coding skills in both low and high level languages around Go, C/C++
 * Low latency and high throughput optimization
 * Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
 * Analytical data-oriented mindset and skills
 * Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems and concurrency control
 * Experience with highly scalable distributed low latency systems.
 * System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

 * Algo trading experience (either professional or personal)
 * Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS)
 * FIX protocol knowledge
 * Experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading)
 * Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking
 * Financial market (exchange, broker-dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge
 * Experience with financial ledgers
 * Statistical and quantitative analysis skills
 * Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
 * Experience with Docker and Kubernetes



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