Senior Software Engineer – Clearing

• Work on post-trade systems for Alpaca’s clearing operations
• Build integrations supporting self-clearing in US equities and options
• Develop infrastructure enabling new financial products and revenue opportunities
• Work on securities finance functions, including fully paid securities lending
• Own projects from ideation through deployment
• Design and build new systems and refine existing systems
• Collaborate with other teams and influence technical and operational decisions
• Participate in the on-call rotation to maintain system reliability

• Deep interest in how traditional financial markets work
• Ability to lead projects independently from definition through completion
• Responsibility for personal and team outcomes
• Experience working at startups
• Foundational knowledge of computers, the internet, databases, and distributed systems
• Productivity with Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building reliable and distributed systems
• Ability to design good RESTful APIs and identify bad ones
• Nice to have: experience in securities clearing and settlement or securities finance
• Nice to have: experience with gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Grafana, Kafka/Redpanda, Helm, and Docker

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card