Senior Software Engineer – Corporate Actions, Security Master

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Develop services that establish the data foundation of Alpaca’s brokerage framework.

• Design, implement, and maintain distributed backend services, APIs, and data models for Security Master and corporate actions.

• Enhance reference data systems to accommodate new instruments, asset classes, and market-specific requirements, including futures and prediction markets.

• Create workflows for the ingestion, validation, and processing of third-party instrument and corporate action data.

• Build internal tools and automation to minimize manual tasks and enhance reference data operations.

• Assist in rethinking how essential asset information is structured and disseminated within Alpaca.

• Participate in architectural decisions that have company-wide implications.

• Collaborate closely with engineering and business teams that utilize reference data, synchronizing changes across services.

• Take ownership of intricate features and technical choices from design to production, including testing, troubleshooting, and ongoing improvements.

• Support Alpaca’s market expansion, product development, and ensure system reliability, performance, and operability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in building and managing event-driven, distributed backend systems.

• Strong database and data modeling expertise, with a grasp of eventual consistency and data replication.

• Solid understanding of system design principles, including the design and evolution of APIs.

• Proficient in a strongly typed programming language and open to working in Go.

• Experience in navigating complex or ambiguous problems from initial requirements to delivery and production operations.

• Ability to clearly articulate technical decisions and trade-offs, collaborate across teams, and reason through inter-system dependencies.

• Senior-level engineering judgment and ownership; evaluation based on capability and impact rather than a fixed years-of-experience criterion.

• Nice to have: Background in trading, brokerage, capital markets, crypto infrastructure, or related financial technologies.

• Nice to have: Experience with reference data, Security Master, instrument or asset data, or corporate action processing.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with financial instruments, particularly options, futures, and other derivatives.

• Nice to have: Experience with third-party data ingestion, internal tooling, and workflow automation.

• Nice to have: Experience mentoring other engineers and collaborating across interconnected services and teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options.

• Health Benefits.

• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500.

• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card.