Staff Software Engineer

• We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to lead API design, governance, and application-layer architecture across Alpaca. • API design, governance, and application-layer architecture • This role acts as the technical owner of Alpaca’s APIs—both internal and external—ensuring they are consistent, reliable, secure, and easy to evolve. You will define standards, guide architectural decisions, and own critical orchestration and aggregation services that power Alpaca’s applications. • This is a hands-on technical leadership role with a strong architectural focus. While you won’t be writing every line of code, you will contribute to shared frameworks, review designs, and own key application-level services. • Things You Get To Do: • Drive Alpaca’s API design principles and governance across internal and external APIs. • API design principles and governance • Lead application-layer architecture, including orchestration and aggregation services. • orchestration and aggregation services • Own and evolve critical services powering application experiences (e.g., portfolio history, account views). • Define standards for API versioning, security, backward compatibility, and documentation. • API versioning, security, backward compatibility, and documentation • Drive best practices for observability, performance, and reliability at the application layer. • observability, performance, and reliability • Partner with platform engineering on service templates and shared infrastructure. • Review API and architectural designs across teams and guide complex technical decisions. • Contribute to shared frameworks, libraries, and tooling. • Mentor senior engineers and raise the bar for backend and API craftsmanship.