Alpaca
Senior Software Engineer - Corporate Actions & Security Master (Go, Backend)
Remote · Africa-wide · EU / UK hours · Full-timePay not disclosedAbout a minute here, then a few on Alpaca's site. Your application is saved on Tamborin first.
What this role offers
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EU / UK hoursCore overlap around 9:00–15:00 UTC
- Type
- Full-time
- Pay
- Pay not disclosed
- Where
- Remote · Africa-wide
- Start
- Flexible
- Who can apply
- EU / UK hours
- Apply by
- Open until filled
- Experience
- Senior
- Openings
- 1
About the role
What you'll do
Alpaca, the brokerage-infrastructure API company, is hiring a senior backend engineer for its Reference Data team. You will build the services behind its Security Master (the source of truth for tradable assets) and the corporate actions pipeline that turns dividends, splits and mergers into correct changes in customer holdings, helping Alpaca expand into new markets and instruments.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and running event-driven, distributed backend systems
- Solid database and data-modelling skills, including eventual consistency and replication
- Good system and API design fundamentals
- Proficiency in a strongly typed language and willingness to work in Go
- Experience taking ambiguous problems from requirements to production
Open to candidates based anywhere in the EMEA region, including Africa; fully remote.
Skills
GoDistributed systemsData modellingAPIsFintech
Pay not disclosedAlpaca · EU / UK hours