Senior Software Engineer

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Senior Software Engineer in Remote new

Alpaca
Full time
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Remote
11/11/2026
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EMEA

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain distributed backend services, APIs, and data models for Security Master and corporate actions.
Extend reference data systems for new instruments, asset classes, and market-specific requirements, including futures and prediction markets.
Build workflows for ingesting, validating, and processing third-party instrument and corporate action information.
Develop internal tools and automation to reduce manual work and improve reference data operations.
Contribute to the architecture and structure of foundational asset information shared across the company.
Coordinate changes with engineering and business teams that consume reference data.
Own technical decisions and complex features from design through implementation, rollout, testing, troubleshooting, and production support.

Requirements

Strong experience building and operating event-driven, distributed backend systems.
Strong database and data-modeling skills, including understanding of eventual consistency and data replication.
Excellent system design fundamentals and experience designing and evolving APIs.
Proficiency in a strongly typed programming language and willingness to work in Go.
Experience taking complex or ambiguous problems from requirements through delivery and production operation.
Ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs, collaborate across teams, and reason through cross-system dependencies.
Senior-level engineering judgment and ownership; capability and impact are assessed rather than a fixed years-of-experience threshold.
Preferred experience in trading, brokerage, capital markets, crypto infrastructure, or related financial technology.
Preferred experience with reference data, Security Master, instrument or asset data, corporate action processing, third-party data ingestion, internal tooling, or workflow automation.
Preferred understanding of financial instruments, particularly options, futures, and other derivatives.
Preferred experience guiding other engineers and working across interconnected services and teams.

Benefits

Competitive salary and stock options.
Health benefits.
One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup.
USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.

Salary: Competitive

Alpaca

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, self-clearing broker-dealer and a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto. Alpaca delivers embeddable finance solutions for tokenization, fully paid securities lending, high-yield cash, 24/5 t...

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