Senior Software Engineer - NewMarkets Japan

As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for

• •Designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form Alpaca's foundation.
• •Contributing to regional recruitment initiatives and driving cross-functional team projects.
• •Mentoring teammates with respect to our engineering principles and practices.
• •Participating in operational reliability engineering during regional business hours.

• •Design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems for the Japan market.
• •Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, REST and gRPC APIs, and third-party vendor integrations.
• •Collaborate with Alpaca's core teams to enhance and transform the core framework.
• •Coordinate in Japanese with local regulators, vendors, partners, and business stakeholders.
• •Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
• •Participate in on-call rotations and assist with timely engineering projects.

• •Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• •Health Benefits
• •New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• •Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

• •Native or JLPT N1 level fluency in Japanese.
• •Business-level English fluency.
• •Proven experience in designing and developing complex financial systems.
• •Strong understanding of accounting principles and transaction reconciliation.
• •Experience in building scalable, high-availability financial applications.
• •Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets, preferably in Japan.
• •Proficiency in at least one statically typed language (e.g. Go, Rust, Java).
• •Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams.
• •Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience.