Software Engineer, Securities Finance

🔥 12 hours ago

🏈 North America – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Alpaca

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201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

API • Fintech • Crypto

Alpaca is a fintech company that provides a comprehensive brokerage and trading platform through a suite of APIs. These APIs enable developers and businesses to integrate algorithmic trading, app development, and embedded investing into their services. Alpaca offers services like trading in US stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency with options for local currency transactions. The company is recognized for its cyber security practices and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. Alpaca is ideal for fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services looking to build sophisticated trading applications and platforms with minimal friction through their well-documented Broker API.

📋 Description

• Build and run backend systems supporting Alpaca's lending and borrowing products • Develop systems for Fully Paid Securities Lending and customer short borrowing • Build partner-facing APIs and batch pipelines for new products and revenue • Improve existing systems for noticeable performance and reliability gains • Manage internal functionality supporting brokerage operational processes • Own projects from problem definition through production deployment and ongoing support • Participate in on-call rotations and address root causes of recurring incidents • Learn and apply securities lending, collateral, settlement, and short-selling rules

🎯 Requirements

• Solid fundamentals in computers, networks, databases, and distributed systems, especially how each of them fails • 3+ years building distributed systems that actually run in production • Productive in Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes • Ability to design a good RESTful API and evaluate existing APIs • Seriousness about building systems people trust with their money • Curiosity about how markets work under the hood • Ability to scope, build, ship, and support projects in production • Ability to independently troubleshoot and fix production issues • Attention to detail • Nice-to-have: experience in securities clearing, securities settlement, or securities finance • Nice-to-have: gRPC, Protobuf, Kafka or Redpanda, Grafana, Helm, Docker • Nice-to-have: Temporal • Nice-to-have: familiarity with daily batch jobs, file-based integrations, reconciliation work, broker-dealer operations, Reg SHO, or short-sale rules

🏖️ 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