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Salary analysis
Compared with the selected benchmark ("All roles in Remote - EMEA"), this listing's salary midpoint is about 95% lower. The offer sits below the benchmark range (€1,421–€20,250). The listed pay band (€478–€643) is tighter than the benchmark, which suggests lower salary variability. This benchmark is based on 7 comparable listings.
| Market | Lower bound (25th percentile) | Median | Upper bound (75th percentile) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market Average: Software Engineer | €3,500/per month | €5,750/per month | €12,303/per month |
| All roles in Remote - EMEA | €1,421/per month | €13,166/per month | €20,250/per month |
| This job's pay range — not quoted in ad (Senior) | €478/per month | €561/per month | €643/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. Our team is distributed across the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond. We build developer-friendly API and scalable data infrastructure powering billions of dollars in assets traded by millions of users. We offer competitive salary and stock options, health benefits, and a one-time home-office setup and ongoing stipend. We’re an equal opportunity workplace and value diversity. The Market Data team manages data products and API surfaces for streaming and historical data and collaborates across teams to scale systems. What You’ll Do: influence architecture, design scalable systems, optimize latency, implement backend services, participate in code reviews, and be on-call when needed. Apply if you’re passionate about financial markets and have strong experience building at scale.
Job Details
Responsibilities
- Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems
- Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts)
- Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matter
- Maintain good software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
- On-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Experience with compiled imperative languages (Go, C, C++, Rust, etc.) (Go strongly preferred)
- SQL or relational database skills
- Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP networking
- Proficient with Linux/BSD and shell scripting
- Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
- Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (we primarily use Kubernetes via GKE)
- Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
- A passion for financial markets
Skills & Technologies
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