Staff Software Engineer, New Markets Middle East

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.

Your Role

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.

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.

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.

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.

Things You Get To Do

Software Architecture and Strategic Development

Architect and establish foundational software systems using Go or similar languages, setting technical direction for organizational software development

Design and establish event-driven architectures, message queues, and asynchronous processing patterns that serve as organizational standards

Build and maintain APIs, services, and integrations that power Alpaca's financial infrastructure, establishing architectural patterns and best practices

Optimize system performance at scale, identifying bottlenecks and implementing efficient solutions that influence organizational performance standards

Ensure systems meet reliability, scalability, and regulatory compliance requirements, establishing compliance frameworks for the organization

Establish coding standards and best practices, writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that serves as examples for the organization

Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and performant systems that meet business requirements and serve as architectural blueprints

Technical Leadership and Strategic Expertise

Demonstrate exceptional technical competency recognized across the organization and industry, serving as the ultimate authority across multiple areas including design, architecture, and performance optimization

Lead complex, multi-team software initiatives from conception to delivery, establishing organizational standards and best practices

Resolve systemic issues that impact the entire organization, applying deep technical knowledge and innovative problem-solving approaches

Serve as the recognized expert on challenging technical issues, providing strategic guidance and solutions that influence organizational technical direction

Establish and maintain high standards for quality across the organization, ensuring robust testing, code review, and efficient design solutions

Evaluate and recommend strategic technical solutions, considering trade-offs between performance, maintainability, cost, and long-term business objectives, influencing organizational technical decisions

Infrastructure Coordination and Strategic Management

Establish infrastructure coordination frameworks and strategies with DevOps and vendors for regional deployments.

Define organizational approaches for ensuring infrastructure meets software requirements, operational standards, and local data residency or regulatory requirements

Establish vendor management strategies for infrastructure services, ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) are met and defining organizational vendor relationship standards

Coordinate with cloud providers, data center vendors, and managed service providers for infrastructure-related activities, establishing organizational coordination practices

Define communication frameworks and coordinate activities between software development needs and infrastructure capabilities

Lead vendor meetings and strategic technical discussions to ensure alignment between software and infrastructure at the organizational level

Travel occasionally within the region to conduct strategic technical reviews and coordinate with vendors and DevOps on-site as required

Mentoring and Organizational Knowledge Sharing

Actively mentor engineers across all levels (junior, intermediate, and senior), fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across the organization

Provide strategic technical guidance and architectural review feedback that helps engineers grow their skills and make better technical decisions

Share knowledge through comprehensive documentation, technical talks, and organizational discussions that influence technical direction

Create learning opportunities across the organization through pair programming, design reviews, technical workshops, and establishing mentorship programs

Establish and evolve best practices and coding standards that improve organizational productivity and code quality

Organizational Influence and Strategic Collaboration

Influence software practices, project direction, and cro