Senior Product Engineer - Growth
Your Role:
As a Senior Product Engineer on the Acquisition team, you will build the tools and services that help developers launch applications on Alpaca. That covers everything from how accounts and identity are set up to the APIs and SDKs partners integrate with. You will work mostly in Go services, with some TypeScript and React.
You will help shape the plan as well as deliver it, and you will own the onboarding experience while dedicated teams support with domain expertise. Exciting challenges wait in central parts of the onboarding process, such as identity, accounts and payments. You will work closely with respective teams to design APIs, challenge existing assumptions, and ship together.
Things You Get To 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
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
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
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
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