Senior Software Engineer - Tax Platform

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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 C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

Among our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institution‑grade APIs. This includes broker‑dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 6 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals 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.

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 Senior Software Engineer on the Tax Platform Engineering team, you will architect, build, and scale mission‑critical systems that ensure accuracy, verifiability, and compliance for our global tax obligations. You will be responsible for engineering durable systems of record that serve as the definitive source of truth for our financial operations, directly mitigating financial risk and ensuring auditable adherence to complex financial laws in a high‑volume, regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly scalable, resilient, and secure microservices and data processing systems using idiomatic Golang.
• Model complex, long‑running tax reporting business logic as durable, state‑ful workflows using Temporal to ensure correctness and reliability.
• Implement and optimize data pipelines consuming financial events from Redpanda, ensuring data quality, timeliness, and integrity.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams of tax analysts, legal experts, and product managers to translate complex and evolving regulatory requirements into robust, maintainable, and verifiable software solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, driving best practices in distributed system design, API definition with gRPC, code quality, and advanced testing strategies.
• Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first‑class concern to ensure transparency for auditors and regulators.
• Own the full lifecycle of services, including automated deployment (CI / CD with tools like Jenkins and Terraform), proactive monitoring, and incident response, following a “you build it, you run it” philosophy.

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