Staff Software Engineer - Margin & Risk
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AlpacaFinancial Services
Americas or EUFull-TimeStaff
SalaryCompetitive Salary & Stock Options
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLJavaKafkaKubernetesRabbitmqC++GogRPCRustDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend or distributed-systems experience.
- Proven ownership of a high-volume system where a defect could cause financial loss, a data-integrity failure, or an 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 a clear willingness to work primarily in Go.
- Deep knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), transactions, consistency, and concurrency.
- Experience with event-driven and service-oriented systems (gRPC or other RPC, Kafka, RabbitMQ) and with Kubernetes.
- Demonstrated care for correctness, including testing strategy, edge-case analysis, reconciliation, and safe production rollout.
- Clear communication with engineers, operations, and compliance partners.
- Track record of technical leadership and mentorship across teams.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical roadmap for margin and risk across asset classes, including portfolio margin, intraday margining, options risk, real-time exposure limits, margin-call automation, and margin models.
- Design and build services that turn complex margin methodologies and regulatory rules into correct, testable, and observable systems.
- Lead real-time risk enforcement on the order path, balancing latency against accuracy and safety.
- Drive reliability and performance across the team's services, focusing on 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 the standard for correctness in a financial system, including transactional integrity, idempotency, reconciliation, and staged rollouts.
- Lead design reviews, mentor senior and mid-level engineers, and raise the engineering bar as the team grows.
- Act as a technical point of escalation for production margin and risk issues, and drive durable prevention after incidents.
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