Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges.Alpaca's globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We will continue to enhance and improve our award-winning developer-friendly API and the infrastructure behind it.We're looking for candidates eager to join Alpaca's growing organization, who are excited about our Mission of "Open financial services to everyone on the planet" and share our Values of "Stay Curious," "Have Empathy," and "Be Accountable."As a Senior Software Engineer on the Tax Platform Engineering team, you will architect, build, and scale the mission‐critical systems that ensure accuracy, verifiability, and compliance for our general tax obligations. Design, build, and operate highly scalable, resilient, and secure microservices and data processing systems using idiomatic Golang.Model complex, long‐running tax reporting business logic as durable, stateful workflows using Temporal to ensure correctness and reliability.Implement and optimize data pipelines consuming financial events from Redpanda, ensuring data quality, timeliness, and llaborate with cross‐functional teams of tax analysts, legal experts, and product managers to translate complex and evolving regulatory requirements into robust, maintainable, and verifiable software solutions.Provide technical leadership and mentorship, driving best practices in distributed system design, API definition with g RPC, code quality,



and advanced testing strategies.Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first‐class concern to ensure transparency for our auditors and regulators.Own the full lifecycle of your services, including automated deployment (CI/CD with tools like Jenkins and Terraform), proactive monitoring, and incident response, following a "you build it, you run it" philosophy.Backend Services: Microservices written in Golang for performance, simplicity, and concurrency.API Communication: g RPC with Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) for high-performance, strongly‐typed, and versionable service‐to‐service APIs.Temporal for durable execution of long‐running, auditable business logic workflows.Streaming Data: Redpanda as a high‐throughput, low‐latency, Kafka‐compatible streaming platform for all tax‐relevant financial events.Cloud platforms (AWS), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).Modern monitoring and observability tools include Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large‐scale systems in production.~ Deep, hands‐on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library.~ Hands‐on experience with Temporal or similar durable execution systems like Cadence or AWS Step Functions.Experience with Redpanda or Apache Kafka, with a solid understanding of the Kafka protocol.Production experience with g RPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf).Proficiency with AWS, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins).Experience with modern observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing systems.Prior experience in Fin Tech, Reg Tech, or another highly regulated industry with familiarity with financial data or compliance systems.New Hire Home‐Office Setup: One‐time USD $500

📌 Senior software engineer - tax platform (Ciudad de México)
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📍 Ciudad de México