Senior Product Engineer - Growth
Read straight from Alpaca's careers page, verified 6h ago.Seekless can tailor your résumé to it.
Seekless can write your résumé for this posting first.
Before you apply
LocationRemote - EU, Remote - North America - Europe
Work moderemote · United States
Typefull-time
SenioritySenior
Experience5+ yrs
DepartmentEngineering
EquityIncluded
Company size501–1,000 people
PostedOct 28, 2026 · 1w ago
Verified live6h ago
At a glanceSummarised by Seekless from the posting.
5+ years building production backend services and APIs in Go or another modern backend language
Experience designing REST APIs
Strong SQL and relational database skills, preferably PostgreSQL
Able to ship frontend work in TypeScript and React when needed
Experience owning a customer or developer journey end to end, such as onboarding, sign-up, activation, or an integration, and able to speak to the business outcome, not just the code
A track record of contributing to codebases owned by other teams and driving cross-team work to completion
Experience with OAuth, OIDC, or similar authorization systems
Experience building products for external developers, such as public APIs, SDKs, or developer documentation
Experience with developer platforms, partner portals, or marketplaces
Experience with multi-tenant account or identity models
Experience in fintech, payments, identity verification (KYC), or other regulated industries
Experience on a growth team or at an early-stage company, shipping whatever it takes to move an outcome
Skills
Go
TypeScript
React
REST
SQL
PostgreSQL
OAuth
OIDC
Benefits
Health insurance
Stock options
Home office setup
Monthly stipend
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 Senior Product Engineer on the Acquisition team, you will build the tools and services that help developers launch applications on Alpaca. That covers everything from how accounts and identity are set up to the APIs and SDKs partners integrate with. You will work mostly in Go services, with some TypeScript and React.
You will help shape the plan as well as deliver it, and you will own the onboarding experience while dedicated teams support with domain expertise. Exciting challenges wait in central parts of the onboarding process, such as identity, accounts and payments. You will work closely with respective teams to design APIs, challenge existing assumptions, and ship together.
Things You Get To Do:
•
Design and build APIs, SDKs, and Go services that let partners build experiences on Alpaca
•
Own partner journeys from first sign-up through a working integration
•
Contribute across teams’ codebases on identity, accounts, payments, and onboarding, and collaborate with those teams on API design
•
Turn ambiguous business goals into actionable plans, and help shape the roadmap for a new area
•
Use data and partner feedback to understand where developers get stuck and what to build next
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
•
5+ years building production backend services and APIs in Go or another modern backend language
•
Experience designing REST APIs, and strong SQL and relational database skills, preferably PostgreSQL
•
Able to ship frontend work in TypeScript and React when needed
•
Experience owning a customer or developer journey end to end, such as onboarding, sign-up, activation, or an integration, and able to speak to the business outcome, not just the code
•
A track record of contributing to codebases owned by other teams and driving cross-team work to completion
•
Experience with OAuth, OIDC, or similar authorization systems
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
•
Experience building products for external developers, such as public APIs, SDKs, or developer documentation
•
Experience with developer platforms, partner portals, or marketplaces
•
Experience with multi-tenant account or identity models
•
Experience in fintech, payments, identity verification (KYC), or other regulated industries
•
Experience on a growth team or at an early-stage company, shipping whatever it takes to move an outcome
How We Take Care of You:
•
Competitive Salary & Stock Options
•
Health Benefits
•
New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
•
Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Legal
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
Recruitment Privacy Policy