Lead Software Engineer Platform

Location

Bulgari, Burgas, Bulgaria

Salary

35000 - 55000 a year (Levs)

Description

Your Role

As a Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading a talented group of software engineers in designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.

Your job is to be the tech lead engineer of the platform team. In this role, you will design and architect our platform by wearing many different hats on our small team. As an experienced engineer, you will write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our internal engineering teams and customers.

On the platform team, you will write well-structured applications in Go with testing and observability in mind (exposing metrics that can be visualized and used for alerts). You will containerize these into optimized Docker images and design helm charts for deploying to Kubernetes.

You are the ideal candidate if you are a native speaker of K8S, Golang, and Docker and have extensive, hands-on experience with microservices and event-driven architecture. You would be even more awesome if you developed Kafka consumers/producers.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

Kubernetes experience

deep understanding of K8S objects and cloud-native application development
written Helm charts

Docker experience

written highly optimized Dockerfiles

Golang experience (or other modern compiled statically typed languages):

concurrent programming
writes well-structured / good abstraction / "object-oriented" code
writes well-covered code (unit/integration/e2e tests)

experience with relational databases (Postgres)

with a focus on optimized queries on huge tables

tech-lead and team-lead experience

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

Has a black-belt in Kubernetes:

CKA/CKAD
have written Kubernetes operators
Tilt experience

developer experience with Kafka/Redpanda

created producers and consumers

have used message serialization technologies

Protobuf
Flatbuffer

experience in various observability tools

Prometheus
Alertmanager
Grafana
Loki

knowledge in algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability and concurrency control
DevOps mindset (understanding of CI pipelines release procedures)
understanding of equity/crypto trading

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