Staff Software Engineer (Corporate Actions & Security Master)

Join Alpaca, a rapidly growing fintech company, as a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Corporate Actions and Security Master systems. In this role, you will design and build systems that manage security reference data, validate Corporate Action announcements, calculate entitlements, and process resulting cash and position changes. You will work closely with Operations, Product, and other engineering teams, and have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the company's growth.

• Contribuer à la conception et à la construction de systèmes pour les actions d'entreprise, le maître de sécurité et le traitement du cycle de vie des titres sur les marchés américains et internationaux.
• Participer à l'ingestion, à la normalisation, à l'amélioration et à la vérification croisée des données sur les titres et les événements provenant de divers fournisseurs.
• Écrire et faire fonctionner du code de production tout en collaborant étroitement avec les opérations, le produit et d'autres équipes d'ingénierie.

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