Staff Software Engineer - Corporate Actions & Security Master

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AlpacaBrokerage infrastructure

Remote - North America and EuropeFull-TimeStaff

SalaryNew Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500; Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card; Stock Options

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Have 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building complex production systems.
Have 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.
Understand announcement terms, record and effective dates, stock-record eligibility, entitlements, elections, fractions, and reconciliation.
Have experience with financial data ingestion, normalization, versioning, lineage, and cross-source validation.
Have strong coding and system-design skills; Go experience is preferred.
Have experience building distributed and event-driven services.
Have experience with relational databases; PostgreSQL is preferred.
Have experience with cloud-native systems such as GCP and Kubernetes.
Demonstrate ownership and the ability to translate complex operational and financial-market requirements into reliable, auditable software.
DTCC/DTC Corporate Actions processing or international market infrastructure experience is a nice-to-have.
Familiarity with ISO 15022, ISO 20022, or SWIFT Corporate Actions messages is a nice-to-have.
Experience building an entitlement engine, Security Master, symbology platform, stock record, reconciliation system, or brokerage ledger is a nice-to-have.
Understanding of how Corporate Actions affect trading, margin, tax, securities lending, fractional shares, and customer statements is a nice-to-have.

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 with Operations, Product, and other engineering teams.

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