Staff Software Engineer – Corporate Actions, Security Master

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

📋 Description

• Develop systems for Corporate Actions, Security Master, and the securities lifecycle processing for both U.S. and international markets.

• Acquire, standardize, augment, and cross-verify security and event data from various vendors, depositories, custodians, and other trusted sources.

• Construct entitlement processing utilizing verified announcement records, stock records, elections, withholding, currencies, and fractional-share rules.

• Provide support for dividends, interest, stock splits, reverse splits, mergers, exchanges, spin-offs, tenders, rights, redemptions, calls, maturities, and elections.

• Oversee the setup and modifications of securities, incorporating symbols, identifiers, listings, exchanges, currencies, and lifecycle status changes.

• Create auditable workflows for validation, approvals, processing, corrections, exceptions, and reconciliations.

• Guarantee that security and event changes are accurately reflected across books and records, positions, ledgers, trading, margin, tax, and customer-facing systems.

• Develop and maintain production code while collaborating closely with Operations, Product, and other engineering teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of professional software engineering experience in developing complex production systems.

• Practical experience with Corporate Actions, Security Master, or securities-processing within a broker-dealer, clearing firm, custodian, bank, depository, transfer agent, or financial data vendor.

• Deep understanding of announcement terms, record and effective dates, stock-record eligibility, entitlements, elections, fractions, and reconciliation processes.

• Experience in financial data ingestion, normalization, versioning, lineage, and cross-source validation.

• Proficient coding and system-design skills, preferably in Go, with a background in constructing distributed and event-driven services.

• Familiarity with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL, and cloud-native systems like GCP and Kubernetes.

• Strong sense of ownership and capability to translate complex operational and financial-market requirements into reliable, auditable software solutions.

• Experience with DTCC/DTC Corporate Actions processing or international market infrastructure is a plus.

• Knowledge of ISO 15022, ISO 20022, or SWIFT Corporate Actions messages is a bonus.

• Experience in developing an entitlement engine, Security Master, symbology platform, stock record, reconciliation system, or brokerage ledger is advantageous.

• Understanding the impact of Corporate Actions on trading, margin, tax, securities lending, fractional shares, and customer statements is a plus.

🏝️ 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