Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer - Identity

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on
• - Help us create a global financial identity verification and risk management service
• - Implement backend services and work on designing an architecture where reliability matters
• - Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions
• - Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems
• - Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general
• - Maintain good software quality and test coverage
• - Participate in code reviews
• - Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
• - You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Required Skills

• - Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset
• - Ability to turn business requirements into a flexible implementation model
• - Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• - Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• - A preference for simple and elegant solutions
• - At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
• - Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices
• - Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
• - Ability to write clean, well tested, and maintainable code
• - Experience with domain driven design and event driven design
• - Ability to debug issues or better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
• - Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes
• - Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
• - Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
• - Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL

Benefits

• - Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• - Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.
• - New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• - Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
• - Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world