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Senior Fullstack Engineer- Auth Team

Region Restricted

Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.

Europe, North America

Employer listed it 11 days ago · Added 10 days ago

First listed 11 days ago and still open.

Salary

$500 per month

Location

Europe, North America

Timezone

CET ±2

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Senior

What the advert says

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Working hours: Not mentioned in the advert
Where you can work from: Location eligibility not confirmed
Contract: Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for: You have 5+ years of experience writing code in strongly-typed languages, with at least one year of experience in Go .
Pay: Competitive Salary & Stock Options

Remote flexibility

Region Restricted

Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in Europe, North America.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Remote- Europe/ Americas, Remote - European Time Zones, Remote - Global - Eastern Time Zone, Remote - North America"
Job description states: "USA, Canada, Japan"

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“You have 5+ years of experience writing code in strongly-typed languages, with at least one year of experience in Go .”
“You have experience building web applications with React and TypeScript .”

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About the role

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 from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

About the Role

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer on the Platform Team, you will develop and operate Alpaca’s authentication, authorization, and Identity Provider (IdP) systems - the systems that handle user login, access control, and secure access across our APIs, customer products, and internal tools.

We are looking for experienced engineers who are comfortable owning services end to end: API design, data modeling, deployments, and production debugging. Most of your time will be spent writing Go (backend services, gRPC/REST APIs, shared client libraries), with meaningful work in React/TypeScript for auth-related UI, and occasionally Java for identity-provider extensions. You will also work with Helm charts, analyze logs and metrics, manage deployments, and help other teams to integrate with our services.

Things You Get To Do

Build and improve authentication-related experiences in customer and partner web applications, including login, permissions, and credential management.

Develop and maintain the platform’s authentication, authorization, and IdP services.

Create and evolve shared libraries and SDKs.

Integrate with identity providers and keep login and access policies working reliably across products.

Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot identity services in production.

Help modernize legacy authentication patterns as the platform evolves.

Own work end to end, from requirements through delivery and follow-up.

Collaborate with other engineering teams on identity and access integration.

Maintain high code quality, write tests, and participate in code reviews.

Help investigate incidents and bugs, including on-call rotation.

Who You Are (must-haves)

You have 5+ years of experience writing code in strongly-typed languages, with at least one year of experience in Go .

You have experience building web applications with React and TypeScript .

You have worked with relational databases before - we use PostgreSQL , but we are not particularly picky about this one as long as you have a solid grasp on the fundamentals.

You have worked at a startup before - you thrive in ambiguous environments, embrace changing priorities, know when to balance technical debt with speed, and proactively tackle whatever needs to get done without relying on pre-existing processes or documentation.

You are not afraid of taking a task from start to finish - gathering requirements, figuring out and implementing the best technical solution, then deploying and monitoring the results.

You have worked at least 3 years on systems at scale .

Requirements

·Collaborate with other engineering teams on identity and access integration.
·Maintain high code quality, write tests, and participate in code reviews.
·Help investigate incidents and bugs, including on-call rotation.
·Who You Are (must-haves)
·You have 5+ years of experience writing code in strongly-typed languages, with at least one year of experience in Go .

Benefits

·New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
·Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
·Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
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How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Alpaca, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (CET ±2).
3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

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