Staff Software Engineer - Corporate Actions & Security Master at Alpaca

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Alpaca — US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure with institutional-grade APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading; serves hundreds of financial institutions worldwide; ~400+ team members.

Staff Software Engineer - Corporate Actions & Security Master — hands-on engineer building Corporate Actions, Security Master, and securities lifecycle processing; design and implement systems across US and international markets; ingest, normalize, enhance, and cross-verify data; develop entitlement processing and reconciliations; ensure changes propagate across books/records, positions, ledger, trading, margin, tax, and customer-facing systems; write and operate production code; collaborate with Operations, Product, and other engineering teams.

7+ years of professional software engineering experience building complex production systems.
Hands-on Corporate Actions, Security Master, or securities-processing experience in a broker-dealer, clearing firm, custodian, bank, depository, transfer agent, or financial data vendor.
Strong understanding of announcement terms, record/effective dates, stock-record eligibility, entitlements, elections, fractions, and reconciliation.
Experience with financial data ingestion, normalization, versioning, lineage, and cross-source validation.
Strong coding and system-design skills, preferably Go, with experience building distributed and event-driven services." ,"Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and cloud-native systems such as GCP and Kubernetes.","Strong ownership and ability to translate complex operational/financial-market requirements into reliable, auditable software. Nice to Have: DTCC/DTC Corporate Actions processing or international market infrastructure; ISO 15022/ISO 20022/SWIFT Corporate Actions; entitlement engine, Security Master, symbology platform, stock record, reconciliation system, or brokerage ledger; understanding of Corporate Actions effects on trading, margin, tax, securities lending, fractional shares, and customer statements."],