Staff Software Engineer - Corporate Actions & Security Master

6 hours, 57 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
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

  • Design Corporate Actions, Security Master, and securities lifecycle systems for U.S. and international markets.
  • Ingest, normalize, enhance, and cross-verify security and event data from authoritative sources.
  • Build entitlement processing for announcements, stock records, elections, withholding, currencies, and fractional shares.
  • Support dividends, interest, splits, mergers, exchanges, spin-offs, tenders, rights, redemptions, calls, maturities, and elections.
  • Manage security setup and lifecycle changes involving symbols, identifiers, listings, exchanges, currencies, and status.
  • Create auditable workflows for validation, approvals, processing, corrections, exceptions, and reconciliation.
  • Propagate security and event changes across books and records, positions, ledger, trading, margin, tax, and customer systems.
  • Write and operate production code while collaborating with Operations, Product, and engineering teams.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building complex production systems.
  • Hands-on Corporate Actions, Security Master, or securities-processing experience in a relevant financial institution or data vendor.
  • Strong understanding of announcement terms, record and effective dates, eligibility, entitlements, elections, fractions, and reconciliation.
  • Experience with financial data ingestion, normalization, versioning, lineage, and cross-source validation.
  • Strong coding and system-design skills, preferably with Go, and experience building distributed, event-driven services.
  • Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and cloud-native technologies such as GCP and Kubernetes.
  • Ability to translate complex operational and financial-market requirements into reliable, auditable software.
  • Experience with DTCC/DTC Corporate Actions or international market infrastructure (preferred).
  • Familiarity with ISO 15022, ISO 20022, or SWIFT Corporate Actions messages (preferred).
  • Experience with entitlement engines, Security Masters, symbology platforms, stock records, reconciliation systems, or brokerage ledgers (preferred).

Benefits

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

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