Software Engineer, Securities Finance

3 hours, 51 minutes ago
Remote
Full-time
Mid Level
Software Development
Alpaca

Alpaca

Alpaca is a developer-first API for stock and crypto trading, offering easy-to-use APIs for building apps and trading algorithms.

Capital Markets
51-250
Founded 2015
$87M raised

Description

  • Own projects from problem definition through production deployment and ongoing support.
  • Build partner-facing APIs and batch pipelines for securities finance products and operations.
  • Develop systems supporting fully paid securities lending and hard-to-borrow short locates.
  • Improve existing systems for reliability, scalability, and operational effectiveness.
  • Integrate with external market participants and launch new products and revenue lines.
  • Participate in on-call support and address recurring incidents at their root cause.
  • Develop expertise in securities lending, collateral, settlement, and short-selling regulations.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience building distributed systems running in production.
  • Proficiency with Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.
  • Strong fundamentals in computer science, networking, databases, distributed systems, and failure modes.
  • Ability to design and evaluate RESTful APIs.
  • Ability to independently scope, build, deploy, and support projects.
  • Strong ownership, judgment, attention to detail, curiosity, and willingness to investigate unfamiliar topics.
  • Experience with securities clearing, settlement, or securities finance (preferred).
  • Experience with gRPC, Protobuf, Kafka or Redpanda, Grafana, Helm, Docker, or Temporal (preferred).
  • Familiarity with batch jobs, file-based integrations, reconciliation, broker-dealer operations, Reg SHO, or short-sale rules (preferred).

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options.
  • Health benefits.
  • $500 one-time new-hire home-office setup allowance.
  • $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.

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