Staff Software Engineer – Corporate Actions, Security Master

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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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

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

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building complex production systems • Hands-on Corporate Actions, Security Master, or securities-processing experience within a broker-dealer, clearing firm, custodian, bank, depository, transfer agent, or financial data vendor • Strong understanding of announcement terms, record and effective dates, stock-record 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 in Go, with experience building distributed and event-driven services • Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and cloud-native systems such as GCP and Kubernetes • Strong ownership and ability to translate complex operational and financial-market requirements into reliable, auditable software • DTCC/DTC Corporate Actions processing or international market infrastructure experience is nice to have • Familiarity with ISO 15022, ISO 20022, or SWIFT Corporate Actions messages is nice to have • Experience building an entitlement engine, Security Master, symbology platform, stock record, reconciliation system, or brokerage ledger is nice to have • Understanding of Corporate Actions effects on trading, margin, tax, securities lending, fractional shares, and customer statements is nice to have

🏖️ 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