Senior Software Engineer - Corporate Actions & Security Master
Alpaca is a brokerage infrastructure company providing developer APIs for stocks, options, fixed income, and crypto trading, plus tokenization infrastructure for TradFi–DeFi markets.
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About Alpaca
Alpaca provides API-first brokerage infrastructure for fintechs, institutions, algorithmic traders, and developers. Its offerings include Broker API, Trading API, market data, self-clearing brokerage services, crypto services, and the Instant Tokenization Network for in-kind minting and redemption of tokenized assets.
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About the Role
You will build services forming the data backbone of brokerage infrastructure, working across Security Master and corporate actions. This is a hands-on backend role focused on distributed systems, data modelling and correctness. You will take open-ended problems from scoping and design through implementation, rollout and production support.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and operating event-driven distributed backend systems
- Strong database and data-modelling skills, including eventual consistency and replication
- Excellent system design fundamentals including API design
- Proficiency in a strongly typed language and willingness to work in Go
- Experience taking ambiguous problems from requirements to production
- Ability to explain technical trade-offs and collaborate across teams
- Senior-level engineering judgement and ownership
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain distributed backend services, APIs and data models
- Extend reference data systems to support new instruments, asset classes and markets, including futures and prediction markets
- Build reliable workflows for ingesting, validating and processing third-party instrument and corporate action data
- Develop internal tools and automation
- Help redesign how foundational asset information is structured and shared
- Work with engineering and business teams consuming reference data
- Own complex features and technical decisions from design through production
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- New hire home-office setup: one-time USD $500
- Monthly stipend: USD $150 via a Brex Card
