Job details
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Full time|Remote|WorldWde
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Full time | Remote | WorldWde
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Alpaca
FinTech Engineering
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range (EUR)
Not specified
Job Deadline
Not specified
About Company
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure provider offering institutional-grade APIs for trading stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. Serving financial institutions across 40+ countries, Alpaca’s mission is to open financial services to everyone on the planet.
Job Description
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test on the Platform Team, you will improve Alpaca’s automated and manual testing infrastructure, enabling developers to reliably and quickly deliver new features. You will define testing strategies, improve CI pipelines, and work deeply with Kubernetes and application code to ensure platform reliability and scalability.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive testing strategy for Alpaca’s API surface.
- Improve developer experience by standardizing testing tooling and infrastructure.
- Coordinate with multiple teams to improve test coverage, reliability, and execution speed.
- Mentor product engineers and promote a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
- Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests.
- Build and maintain automated test frameworks for microservices.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as an SDET or Senior QA Engineer.
- At least 1 year of professional experience with Go and strongly typed languages.
- Experience building and maintaining CI pipelines (GitHub Actions, Google Cloud Build).
- Strong experience testing microservices and distributed systems.
- Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, including Helm, security best practices, and production usage.
- Startup experience with a strong sense of ownership and end-to-end responsibility.
Skills
GoSoftware TestingTest AutomationCI/CDGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud BuildKubernetesHelmMicroservicesAPI TestingLoad Testingk6ghzDockerCloud Infrastructure