Staff Software Engineer - Corporate Actions & Security Master

About Us: Alpaca is a leading global provider of brokerage infrastructure, specializing in various financial products such as stocks, ETFs, options, and crypto. Headquartered in the U.S., we serve over 10 million brokerage accounts across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. Our diverse team of over 400 professionals is dedicated to making financial services accessible to everyone, driven by our commitment to open-source contributions and community engagement. Backed by significant investment, we are focused on enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API.

Your Role: We are seeking an experienced engineer with expertise in Corporate Actions and Security Master systems. You will be responsible for managing security reference data, validating Corporate Action announcements, and ensuring accurate entitlement calculations. Your work will involve designing systems for processing corporate actions and securities lifecycle events across various markets.

Main Responsibilities:

• Design and implement systems for Corporate Actions and securities lifecycle processing.
• Ingest and validate security and event data from multiple authoritative sources.
• Build workflows for entitlement processing and manage security setup changes.
• Ensure accurate propagation of security changes across various systems.
• Collaborate with operations, product, and engineering teams while writing production code.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in complex systems.
• Hands-on experience with Corporate Actions or related financial processing.
• Strong coding skills, ideally in Go, with familiarity in cloud environments like GCP.
• Understanding of financial data validation and relational databases.

If you are passionate about contributing to Alpaca's growth and align with our values, we invite you to apply!