Alpaca provides API-based brokerage infrastructure that lets fintechs and financial institutions embed trading in stocks, ETFs, options and fixed-income products for customers worldwide.
<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p> <p><strong>Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure </strong>for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>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.</strong><br><br><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p> <p>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!<br><br>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.</p></div><h2 data-local-id="aae1952e52bf" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Your Role</h2> <p data-local-id="98f3d6eea977" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">As a Staff Software Engineer at Alpaca Middle East, you will be a strategic technical leader responsible for architecting, designing, and establishing the foundational software systems that power Alpaca's financial infrastructure in the region. Your primary responsibility will be setting the technical direction for our software engineering practices, establishing architectural standards and patterns, and ensuring our systems meet regulatory compliance requirements while maintaining world-class reliability, scalability, and performance.</p> <p data-local-id="cb1446bb6516" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You will demonstrate exceptional technical depth and breadth across software engineering, serving as the recognized expert in system design, architecture, and performance optimization. You will independently lead complex, multi-team software initiatives, resolve systemic issues that impact the entire organization, and establish high standards for quality through innovative design solutions and engineering excellence. Your influence extends across the entire engineering organization, shaping software strategy, setting organizational processes and standards, and driving long-term technical vision.</p> <p data-local-id="e9ffd0d05166" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">In addition to software development, you will establish strategic approaches for infrastructure coordination with regional deployments and cloud or data center operations as needed for UAE and Saudi markets. While day-to-day infrastructure work may be performed, you will define infrastructure coordination frameworks,, and ensure strategic alignment between software requirements and infrastructure capabilities. Occasional on-site or regional travel may be required for strategic technical reviews, and ensuring infrastructure meets operational and regulatory standards.</p> <p data-local-id="c48c063f5f9b" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">This role requires exceptional problem-solving abilities, deep software engineering expertise recognized across the industry, and genuine care for system reliability, team dynamics, and organizational impact. You will serve as the ultimate technical authority on challenging software engineering issues, driving architectural decisions that impact multiple teams and systems. Your work will have organization-wide impact, influencing how software is designed, developed, and operated across Alpaca's Middle East operations.</p> <p data-local-id="c48c063f5f9b" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"> </p> <h2 data-local-id="1da7c7957fe9" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 3 []">Things You Get To Do</h2> <h3 data-local-id="42dfc265fa55" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Software Architecture and Strategic Development</h3> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="339b4c618b94" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="bulletList" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"> <li data-local-id="6fced04f0852" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="listItem" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"> <p data-local-id="b349ec5c09ae" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Architect and establish foundational software systems using Go or similar languages, setting technical direction for organizational software development</p> </li> <li data-local-id="53cfe0973b7d" data-prosemirror-conte