Team Lead Engineer - Crypto
Core
Lead all crypto-related engineering for Alpaca's regulated spot and derivatives exchanges, architecting and building 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
A highly scalable, mission-critical perpetual futures exchange supporting high trading volume and low latency
Domain
Cryptocurrency / Regulated Financial Exchanges
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Backend software development, CLOB exchange architecture, HFT systems, high-performance matching engine, margin/liquidation engine, crypto systems, GoLang, SQL, Bash, Linux, Docker
Preferred skills
Kubernetes, CKA/CKAD certification, NoSQL, CI/CD, AWS/GCP/Azure, financial markets, microservice architectures, clean code principles
Responsibilities
Architect and build exchange systems, implement backend services and web applications, maintain software quality and test coverage, troubleshoot incidents and bugs, provide on-call assistance, collaborate with cross-functional teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC