Team Lead Engineer - Crypto
Core
Lead engineering for Alpaca's regulated spot and derivatives exchanges, architecting a perpetual futures exchange with matching, collateral, liquidation, risk, API, KYC/AML, regulatory reporting, settlement, clearing, custody, banking, order management, accounting, analytics, and compliance integrations.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (crypto exchange systems)
Builds
Highly scalable, mission-critical exchange systems supporting high trading volume and low latency
Domain
Cryptocurrency / Regulated Financial Markets
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Backend software development, CLOB exchange architecture, HFT systems, high-performance matching engine, margin/liquidation engine, crypto system development, GoLang, SQL, Bash, Linux, Docker
Preferred skills
Kubernetes, NoSQL, CI/CD, major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), microservice architectures, clean code principles
Responsibilities
Architect and build perpetual futures exchange components, design scalable low-latency systems, implement backend services and web applications, maintain software quality and test coverage, troubleshoot incidents and bugs, provide on-call assistance, collaborate on cross-functional goals
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC