Senior Software Engineer - Clearing

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Responsibilities

• ▹Work in a team that values quality of thinking, excellence in execution, practical solutions and taking responsibility over tenure or hierarchy
• ▹Own projects from ideation to deployment, cutting through ambiguity
• ▹Design and build new systems that enable new products or unlock more revenue
• ▹Refine existing systems as long as the outcome is meaningful and tangible
• ▹Participate in the on-call rotation to keep systems in shape
• ▹Cooperate with other teams and influence what the company does and how
• ▹Beyond core clearing, work on securities finance functions and the infrastructure for launching new products such as Fully Paid Securities Lending

Requirements

• ▹Take seriously that the systems handle people's hard-earned money
• ▹Deep interest in how traditional financial markets work
• ▹Able to take the lead on a project: you get the problem and contacts, and handle the rest
• ▹Take responsibility for your own work and collectively as a team
• ▹Understand which design choices matter and which can be adjusted later
• ▹Know when you do not know something and seek out the information rather than guessing or having an LLM do the thinking
• ▹Able to let go of your ideas when new information surfaces
• ▹Long-term view: want to see the impact of your decisions and take on larger efforts
• ▹Startup experience and understanding that priorities can shift with market needs
• ▹Willing to push back in a civilized, productive way and accept the final decision
• ▹Attention to detail
• ▹Good foundational knowledge of how computers, the internet, databases and distributed systems work
• ▹Productive with Go, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes
• ▹5+ years of hands-on experience building reliable, distributed systems
• ▹Can design good (RESTful) APIs and spot bad ones

Nice to have

• ▹Experience in securities clearing and settlement or securities finance
• ▹Experience with gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Grafana, Kafka/Redpanda, Helm and Docker

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive salary and stock options
• ▹Health benefits
• ▹One-time USD 500 home-office setup
• ▹Monthly stipend of USD 150 via a Brex Card

About the company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered provider of agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto and more, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries via its APIs. Its 400+ team members work remotely around the world.