Senior Software Engineer - Corporate Actions & Security Master
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AlpacaFinancial technology
Remote - EMEAFull-TimeSenior
SalaryNew Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500; Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
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Job Details
- Experience
- Senior-level engineering judgement and ownership; we assess capability and impact rather than applying a fixed years-of-experience threshold.
- Required Skills
- GoData modelingDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Have strong experience building and operating event-driven, distributed backend systems.
- Bring strong database and data-modelling skills, including understanding of eventual consistency and data replication.
- Have sound system design fundamentals, including designing and evolving APIs.
- Be proficient in a strongly typed programming language and willing to work in Go.
- Have experience taking complex or ambiguous problems from initial requirements through delivery and production operation.
- Be able to explain technical decisions and trade-offs clearly, collaborate across teams, and reason through cross-system dependencies.
- Demonstrate senior-level engineering judgement and ownership; assessment is based on capability and impact rather than a fixed years-of-experience threshold.
- Nice to have experience in trading, brokerage, capital markets, crypto infrastructure, or related financial technology.
- Nice to have experience with reference data, Security Master, instrument or asset data, or corporate action processing.
- Nice to have understanding of financial instruments, particularly options, futures, and other derivatives.
- Nice to have experience with third-party data ingestion, internal tooling, and workflow automation.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain distributed backend services, APIs, and data models for Security Master and corporate actions.
- Extend reference data systems to support new instruments, asset classes, and market-specific requirements, including futures and prediction markets.
- Build workflows to ingest, validate, and process third-party instrument and corporate action information.
- Develop internal tools and automation to reduce manual work and improve reference data operations.
- Contribute to redesigning how foundational asset information is structured and shared across Alpaca.
- Coordinate changes with engineering and business teams that consume reference data.
- Own complex features and technical decisions from design through production, including testing, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
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