Alpaca is a series A fintech startup that’s raised over $21M in funding. Alpaca builds an API for stock trading that enables developers across the world to build trading algos, applications, and brokerage services.
Alpaca’s globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors including Spark Capital, Portag3, Social Leverage, Elefund, Y Combinator, and highly experienced industry angel investors. We are also a very tech-enthusiastic team with notable track records in open source and startup communities.
You will be helping our broker partners/customers who build their Fintech apps on our API platform from technology standpoint as part of the business integration team. As an API product, we value and respect your engineering skills that you apply to solve the real world problems and help the partners/customers to build things that change the financial world. This will include provide technical training, answering tech questions, build a sample code, diagnose the integration problems, and work with internal team to solve the hard problems.
You are supposed to have:
- 1+ years experience in roles such as tech support and software engineering
- Communication skills to understand customer's problem and provide solutions
- Business analytical skills to understand the priorities and manage the expectation
- Frontend enineering skills in one of the JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java etc
- General web knowledges around HTML5, CSS, XML, JSON, HTTP(2/3), REST
- Data skills using SQL, R, Excel, Python
- Interest and/or background in financial markets
- International communication experiences
You will be doing:
- Provide technology solutions to the customers who build their application on our platform using API
- Analyze the business problems and solve it from technology aspect when it applies
- Build templated solutions that help various projects and showcase them
- Work closely with the integration team
- Understand the business objectives and priorities depending on the projects and manage your time slices across them
- Participate in customer calls and discuss problems/solutions with them
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