Staff Software Engineer – Margin & Risk

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 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

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for margin and risk across asset classes • Design and build correct, testable, and observable systems implementing margin methodologies and regulatory rules • Lead real-time risk enforcement on the order path, balancing latency, accuracy, and safety • Drive reliability and performance across services, including throughput, state recovery, database load, and failure isolation • Partner with Product, Brokerage Operations, Compliance, and adjacent engineering teams to define behavior and integration boundaries • Set standards for transactional integrity, idempotency, reconciliation, feature flags, and staged rollouts • Lead design reviews, mentor senior and mid-level engineers, and raise engineering standards • Serve as a technical escalation point for production margin and risk issues and drive durable incident prevention

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of backend or distributed-systems experience; strong preference for ownership of the same consequential production system for at least two years • Proven ownership of a high-volume system where defects could cause financial loss, data-integrity failure, or inappropriate customer restriction • Experience designing and shipping transactional, low-latency, high-throughput systems • Strong expertise in Go, or deep experience in Java, C++, or Rust and willingness to work primarily in Go • Deep knowledge of relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, transactions, consistency, and concurrency • Experience with event-driven and service-oriented systems, including gRPC or other RPC, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar, and Kubernetes • Demonstrated care for correctness through testing strategy, edge-case analysis, reconciliation, and safe production rollout • Clear communication with engineers and operations and compliance partners • Track record of technical leadership and mentorship across teams • Preferred: hands-on margin or risk experience across more than one asset class • Preferred: familiarity with Reg T, portfolio margin, options spread margin, or futures margin • Preferred: background in brokerage, clearing, exchange, ledger, payments, or settlement systems • Preferred: experience with options, derivatives, or multi-leg strategies • Preferred: workflow orchestration experience with Temporal or similar • Preferred: observability and production performance tuning • Preferred: leading migrations or refactors in production-critical environments

🏖️ 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