Описание

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and ship autonomous execution for agents acting on Alpaca accounts. This platform needs to serve external algorithmic traders, partners building products on Alpaca, operators, and partners who embed Alpaca so their end users' agents can act.

Responsibilities

Lead the application architecture for safe agent execution, from the tool call through to our trading systems
Design and build the account-level policy and guardrails for external agent actions
Own the services that evaluate those rules on the path into our trading systems
Define how agent-initiated trading actions behave, with the engineers who own our tools and skills
Keep Alpaca’s execution model current with the MCP protocol and with connector, plugin, and skill standards, and translate what changes into account policy, guardrails, and trading actions
Partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, and the identity platform to define the control model and ship it
Own production reliability for the policy and guardrail services
Review designs across teams and guide the technical decisions where agent actions meet brokerage systems
Mentor engineers and raise the quality of design and implementation in this area

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, building and operating production backend systems
Shipped autonomous execution: software that took actions under an explicit policy without a person approving each action, and that rejected or stopped actions outside that policy
Designed and implemented account-level policy in an application: durable rules for what a caller may do, enforced on the action path, with an audit of the decision
Enough MCP architecture to work with stateless and stateful behavior, and experience building to MCP, or to connector, plugin, or skill standards, as they have changed in production
Able to define, with Product, Compliance, and Risk, which account rules allow an unattended action
Proficiency in Python or TypeScript, and a willingness to work primarily in Go
Strong architectural judgment, with a record of shipping while requirements are still being defined
Clear communication with engineers, product, compliance, and risk partners

Nice to have

Experience with agent identity and authorization, such as OAuth, tokens, scopes, and delegated access, and comfort partnering with the team that owns that platform
Experience shipping developer-facing tools, SDKs, or MCP servers
Experience building agents with a framework such as LangChain
Experience or understanding of financial markets
Experience working at a startup
Experience working remotely

We offer

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
Alpaca is an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce

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