Alpaca
Senior Product Engineer - Growth
Remote - North America - Europe. Posted 16 days ago
The role
You will build tools and services that help developers launch applications on Alpaca. You will work mostly in Go services, with some TypeScript and React to own the onboarding experience.
What you will do
- Design and build APIs, SDKs, and Go services
- Own partner journeys from first sign-up through a working integration
- Contribute across teams' codebases on identity, accounts, payments, and onboarding
- Collaborate with teams on API design
- Turn ambiguous business goals into actionable plans
- Help shape the roadmap for a new area
- Use data and partner feedback to understand developer needs
Required qualifications
- 5+ years building production backend services and APIs in Go or another modern backend language
- Experience designing REST APIs
- Strong SQL and relational database skills
- Able to ship frontend work in TypeScript and React when needed
- Experience owning a customer or developer journey end to end
- A track record of contributing to codebases owned by other teams and driving cross-team work to completion
- Experience with OAuth, OIDC, or similar authorization systems
Nice to have
- Experience building products for external developers, such as public APIs, SDKs, or developer documentation
- Experience with developer platforms, partner portals, or marketplaces
- Experience with multi-tenant account or identity models
- Experience in fintech, payments, identity verification (KYC), or other regulated industries
- Experience on a growth team or at an early-stage company
Benefits
- 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
About the company
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. It is a licensed financial services company serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries.