Senior Software Engineer — Market Data

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer — Market Data role is hybrid remote, with Chicago, IL listed as the location. Compensation is not specified; the posting mentions competitive salary and stock options. The role supports Alpaca’s market data team, which builds and improves data products and developer-facing APIs for financial markets. The engineer designs and scales mission-critical market data services and contributes to the architecture, quality, and reliability of streaming and historical data systems. This work supports Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure and the developers and institutions using its APIs.

What you'll do

• Design scalable market data provider services
• maintain software quality and test coverage
• participate in code reviews
• troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
• contribute to architecture and services for market data products and public APIs, including streaming and historical endpoints.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

market data

hybrid remote

chicago il

alpaca

backend engineering

go

python

kubernetes

docker

rest apis

grpc

stock options

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Health benefits, stock options, a one-time $500 new-hire home-office setup, and a $150 monthly stipend.

Why this role

The posting seeks senior or staff-level engineers and lists Go, Python, REST, gRPC, WebSockets, SSE, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, BigTable, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK in its technology stack.

About the employer

Alpaca is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.