Production Support Engineer Remote – Canada (Toronto)
Job Description
Description
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Ourrecent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 6 million brokerage accounts.
Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission ofopening financial services to everyone on the planet . We’re deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Our Team Members:
We’re a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!
We’re searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca’s rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Drive the evolution of Alpaca’s customer facing technical support, ensuring scalability and efficiency to deliver exceptional client service.
Solve Complex L2 Escalations: Provide hands-on troubleshooting and resolution for critical technical issues, dedicating 50% of your time to direct customer problem-solving.
Improve Support Process Efficiency: Audit escalation workflows and improve via code, tooling, and training to minimize L3 escalations.
Drive Cross-Functional Root Cause Analysis: Collaborate with Support, Product, and Engineering to identify and resolve recurring issues, and ensure continuous product improvement.
Develop and Maintain Comprehensive Technical Documentation: Create and manage internal knowledge bases, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides, contributing to public documentation as needed.
Scale Technical Support: Lead the implementation of the technical support strategy to scale and deliver world-class client service.
You have 7+ years of experience in technical escalation or support engineering.
You excel at troubleshooting complex distributed systems and APIs.
You are proficient with SQL, Kubernetes, and GCP.
You communicate technical information clearly and document meticulously.
You drive process improvements and SLA performance.
You understand FinTech concepts and API-driven financial platforms.
You have experience with Golang, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
You contribute to public technical documentation.
You have experience with performance tuning of Postgres databases.
How We Take Care of You:
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
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Company
AlpacaJapan Co., Ltd
Location
Toronto
Country
Canada
Salary
100.000
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