Senior Product Engineer - Growth

Overview

Senior Product Engineer on the Acquisition team, building the APIs, SDKs, and Go services that let partners launch applications on Alpaca, including account setup, identity, and onboarding.

What you'll 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

What you'll need

• 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

Nice to have

• 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

Details

• Remote, North America and Europe
• Competitive salary and stock options
• Health benefits
• One-time USD $500 new hire home-office setup
• Monthly stipend of USD $150 via a Brex Card