Senior Software Engineer – Clearing

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About the role

  • Senior Software Engineer building distributed clearing and settlement systems for Alpaca, a global brokerage infrastructure provider. Developing integrations and infrastructure for equities, options, and securities finance products.

Responsibilities

  • Work on post-trade systems for Alpaca’s clearing operations
  • Build integrations supporting self-clearing in US equities and options
  • Develop infrastructure enabling new financial products and revenue opportunities
  • Work on securities finance functions, including fully paid securities lending
  • Own projects from ideation through deployment
  • Design and build new systems and refine existing systems
  • Collaborate with other teams and influence technical and operational decisions
  • Participate in the on-call rotation to maintain system reliability

Requirements

  • Deep interest in how traditional financial markets work
  • Ability to lead projects independently from definition through completion
  • Responsibility for personal and team outcomes
  • Experience working at startups
  • Foundational knowledge of computers, the internet, databases, and distributed systems
  • Productivity with Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience building reliable and distributed systems
  • Ability to design good RESTful APIs and identify bad ones
  • Nice to have: experience in securities clearing and settlement or securities finance
  • Nice to have: experience with gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Grafana, Kafka/Redpanda, Helm, and Docker

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

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Distributed SystemsDockerGrafanaGRPCKafkaKubernetesPostgresGo

Location requirements

RemoteNorth America

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