Senior Staff Engineer: Corporate Actions & Security Master

Alpaca; Greater London; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Stock Options

New Hire Home-Office Setup: USD $500

Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month

Job summary

Alpaca seeks a hands-on Staff Software Engineer focused on Corporate Actions and the Security Master. You will design and build systems to manage security reference data, validate announcements, calculate entitlements, process cash and position changes, and reconcile outcomes across a global brokerage platform.

You’ll work with Go, distributed, event-driven services, and relational DBs like PostgreSQL, on cloud-native GCP/Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience in production systems.
• Hands-on Corporate Actions, Security Master, or securities-processing in financial data contexts.
• Strong understanding of terms, entitlements, elections, and reconciliation.
• Experience with financial data ingestion, normalization, lineage, and cross-source validation.
• Strong coding and system-design skills, preferably Go, with distributed services experience.
• Relational databases (PostgreSQL) and cloud-native systems (GCP, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Design systems for Corporate Actions, Security Master, and lifecycle processing across markets.
• Ingest, normalize, enhance, and cross-verify security/event data from authoritative sources.
• Build entitlement processing using validated records, elections, currencies, and fractions.
• Support dividends, splits, mergers, tenders, and other corporate actions affecting accounts.
• Manage security setup, symbols, listings, exchanges, currencies, and lifecycle status.
• Create auditable workflows for validation, approvals, processing, corrections, exceptions, and reconciliation.
• Ensure changes propagate across books, records, positions, ledger, trading, tax, and customer systems.
• Write and operate production code in collaboration with Operations, Product, and other teams.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Event-driven

Financial data

Tools

PostgreSQL

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Alpaca seeks a hands-on Staff Software Engineer focused on Corporate Actions and the Security Master. You will design and build systems to manage security reference data, validate announcements, calculate entitlements, process cash and position changes, and reconcile outcomes across a global brokerage platform.

You’ll work with Go, distributed, event-driven services, and relational DBs like PostgreSQL, on cloud-native GCP/Kubernetes.