Senior Software Engineer - Clearing

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Responsibilities

• ▹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 where the outcome is meaningful and tangible
• ▹Take part in the on-call rotation to keep systems in good shape
• ▹Build new integrations and product offerings, such as Fully Paid Securities Lending
• ▹Cooperate with colleagues from other teams

Requirements

• ▹Deep interest in how traditional financial markets work
• ▹Willingness and ability to lead a project
• ▹Productive with Go, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes
• ▹5+ years of hands-on experience building reliable and distributed systems
• ▹Able to design good (RESTful) APIs and spot bad ones
• ▹Good foundational knowledge of how computers, the internet, databases and distributed systems work
• ▹Experience working at startups
• ▹Attention to detail
• ▹Willing to push back in a civilized and productive way, and accept decisions that differ from your view

Nice to have

• ▹Experience in securities clearing and settlement, or securities finance
• ▹Experience with gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Grafana, Kafka/Redpanda, Helm, 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 self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure. In recent years it became self-clearing in US equities and options, and serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries.