Senior Software Engineer – Clearing

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About the role

  • Senior Software Engineer responsible for clearing operations in a financial services company. Working on systems critical to financial markets while collaborating with a global team.

Responsibilities

  • Work in a team valuing quality of thinking, excellence in execution, practical solutions, and responsibility
  • Own projects from ideation to deployment, building what’s necessary, not just what’s asked
  • Design and build new systems for enabling new products or unlocking more revenue
  • Refine existing systems to improve them meaningfully
  • Learn about instrumental things in keeping the financial markets healthy
  • See behind the curtains of building Alpaca and impact how we do things
  • Participate in on-call rotation to ensure systems are in tip-top shape

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience building reliable and distributed systems
  • Good foundational knowledge of how computers work, how the internet works, how databases work, how distributed systems behave and misbehave
  • Productive with the following technologies: Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
  • Experience with designing good (RESTful) APIs and spotting bad ones
  • Deeply interested in how traditional financial markets work
  • Attention to detail and ability to work collaboratively
  • Willing to push back in a civilized and productive way
  • Ability to take the lead on a project and to roll up sleeves if needed.
  • Knowledge about securities clearing & settlement, securities finance (nice-to-have)
  • Experience with gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Grafana, Kafka/Redpanda, Helm, Docker (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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Distributed SystemsDockerGrafanaGRPCKafkaKubernetesPostgresGo

Location requirements

RemoteNorth America

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