Lead Software Engineer

As a Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading a talented group of software engineers in designing, implementing, maintaining the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.

Your job is to be the tech lead engineer of the platform team. In this role you will be designing and architecting our platform by wearing many different hats in our small team. As an experienced engineer, you will write tons of code and make critical decisions about how to deliver the best experience to our internal engineering teams and our customers.
In the platform team you will be writing well structured applications in go with testing and observability in mind (exposing metrics that can be visualized and used for alerts). You will containerize into optimized Docker images, you will also design helm-charts for deploying to Kubernetes. 

You are the ideal candidate if you are a native speaker of K8S, Golang, Docker, and you have extensive, hands on experience with microservices and event driven architecture. You are even more awesome, if you developed Kafka consumers / producers.

Required (hands on experience!):

• Kubernetes experience
• deep understanding of K8S objects and cloud native application development
• written Helm charts
• Docker experience
• written highly optimized Dockerfiles
• Golang experience (or other modern compiled statically typed languages):
• concurrent programing
• writes well structured / good abstraction / "object oriented" code
• writes well covered code (unit/integration/e2e tests)
• experience with relational databases (Postgres)
• with focus on optimized queries on huge tables
• tech-lead and team-lead experience

Nice to have:

• has a black-belt in Kubernetes:
• CKA/CKAD
• have written Kubernetes operators
• Tilt experience
• developer experience with Kafka/Redpanda
• created producers and consumers
• have used message serialization technologies
• Protobuf
• Flatbuffer
• experience in various observability tools
• Prometheus
• Alertmanager
• Grafana
• Loki
• knowledges in algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability and concurrency control
• devops mindset (understanding of CI pipelines, release procedures)
• understanding of equity/crypto trading