事業概要
■Alpaca provides investment solutions.
■AlpacaJapan (www.alpaca.ai) is Asia’s leading AI FinTech.
仕事内容
■Position & Responsibilities We are looking for a Software Engineer to join us in Tokyo, Japan. Our mission is to create a new collaboration platform between finance professionals and AI for the capital markets to optimize the world’s economy.
As a Software Engineer, your role will be to build and maintain our services/system, to collaborate with the data scientists to improve their productivity and create new products together, as well as build and maintain historical and live data pipelines with a focus on quality and performance. Your responsibilities will include:
・contributing to design robust architecture for live production systems using data science and engineering knowledge building robust live production systems for new products ・contributing to DevOps of alpaca products including improvement of existing products ・contributing to build the robust, low-latency production environment handling high frequency streaming data ・collaborating with the data scientists to improve their productivity: collect requirements, create roadmaps and build the data platform used for research ・building a scalable datalake and data pipelines with a focus on ease of use and clarity ・handling installation and maintenance of new data sources ・driving innovation by evaluating new technologies, original data sources and recent research papers that add value to our products ・collaborating with the team to iterate quickly on products and share knowledge
■Team Diversity We are a collaborative team of engineers, data scientists, quants, architects, designers, bankers and project managers from diverse backgrounds.
■Community Engagement We benefit from the community and are happy to give back. We cherish connections from our external partners, investors and players from the start-up industry. We have recently open-sourced our high-performance time series database MarketStore (https://github.com/Alpacahq/marketstore) written in Go.
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■Minimum Qualifications ・A degree in Computer Science or related technical field ・3 years of relevant experience ・Strong structural knowledge of computer science from low to high layer ・Exposure to continuous integration implementations that utilize DevOps style tools (such as CircleCI, etc.) ・Familiar with good engineering practices such as TDD, code review, git ・Fluent with python stack: Numpy, Pandas, Flask
■Preferred Qualifications ・Knowledge of several programming languages: Golang, Rust, Java, etc ・Experience handling streaming data and protocols ・Previous experience in building data-centric products: Big Data, Search or Data Analytics platforms ・Experience with containerized solutions: using docker-compose, kubernetes, mesos, etc ・Experience with cloud services: EC2, S3, SQS, Batch, Lambda, EKS, etc ・Experience handling financial data: Forex, Stocks, ETFs… is appreciated but not required ・Experience with ML packages/frameworks (sklearn, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Chainer, etc) ・Experience with scaling data pipelines and programmatic ETL ・Understanding of data management, data quality monitoring and metadata management
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事業内容の詳細
Alpaca provides investment solutions for Bankers, Asset Managers, Traders and Market Makers worldwide. Our products include: AlpacaForecast, a platform that predicts market price movements; AlpacaRadar/Search that predicts market risk anomalies between cross assets.
In June 2020 AlpacaJapan raised $10M in a series B funding in order to expand globally and push the development of its product. Our groundbreaking technology has already attracted the attention of major banking and financial institutions within Japan and around the world and led to long-lasting partnerships.