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Join Alpaca as a Staff Software Engineer focusing on Corporate Actions and Security Master systems. Work remotely in North America or Europe with a competitive salary and stock options.
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 10 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
Your Role
Alpaca is looking for a hands-on engineer with deep knowledge of Corporate Actions and Security Master systems.- 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.
Who You Are
- 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 the ability to translate complex operational and financial-market requirements into reliable, auditable software.
How We Take Care of You:
- 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
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.