
Software Engineer
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Salary analysis
Compared with the selected benchmark ("In Remote - Europe: Software Engineer"), this listing's salary midpoint is about 93% lower. The offer sits below the benchmark range (€5,593–€15,915). The listed pay band (€589–€818) is tighter than the benchmark, which suggests lower salary variability. This benchmark is based on 16 comparable listings.
| Market | Lower bound (25th percentile) | Median | Upper bound (75th percentile) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market Average: Software Engineer | €3,751/per month | €6,292/per month | €14,468/per month |
| In Remote - Europe: Software Engineer | €5,593/per month | €10,664/per month | €15,915/per month |
Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding...
Job Details
Responsibilities
- Build proprietary services for high quality advisory platform
- Design and architect platform components
- Write code across frontend and backend
- Ensure low-latency, high-throughput systems
- Collaborate in a small team in an early-stage startup
Requirements
- System design skills with OO data modeling
- Service-oriented architectures
- Coding in C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python
- Low latency and high throughput optimization
- Experience with messaging queues and brokers
- Distributed systems, databases, concurrency
- Experience with OMS and high-load financial systems
Skills & Technologies
Benefits & Perks
Benefits
Recruitment Process
- 1Screening call
- 2Technical interview
- 3Culture interview
- 4Offer

| Location | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Remote - North America | 6 |
| Remote - Global | 5 |
| Remote - Europe | 5 |
| Remote - EMEA | 3 |
| Remote - Anywhere | 2 |
| Singapore, Singapore | 1 |
| Remote - Turkey | 1 |
| Remote - South America | 1 |
| Remote - United Kingdom | 1 |
| Role type | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 5 |
| Trading Operations Associate | 1 |
| Full-Stack Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Fullstack Engineer | 1 |
| AI Platform Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Software Engineer | 1 |
| Customer Success Manager | 1 |
| Analytics Engineer | 1 |
| Solutions Engineer | 1 |
| Crypto Operations Associate | 1 |
| Engineer Team Lead | 1 |
| Software Development Engineer in Test | 1 |
| Director of Data Platform | 1 |
| Fullstack Engineer | 1 |
| Accounting Manager | 1 |
| Role level | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Senior | 15 |
| Mid-Level | 2 |
| Executive | 1 |
| Manager | 1 |
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