Securities Finance Backend Engineer (Remote)

Social Leverage LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Home-office setup

Monthly stipend

Job summary

Alpaca is hiring a Software Engineer for the Securities Finance team to build and run the backend systems behind lending and borrowing products. You will own end-to-end development, from problem framing to production, ensuring reliability and performance in a high-stakes financial infrastructure.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, RESTful API design, and working with Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes. This remote role offers competitive compensation and locations across the Americas and

Qualifications

• 3+ years building distributed systems that run in production
• Solid fundamentals in computers, networks, databases, and distributed systems
• Proficient in Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes
• Able to design a good RESTful API and assess others' APIs

Responsibilities

• Own projects from initial problem conversation to production
• Build systems for launching new products and revenue, including partner APIs and batch pipelines
• Improve existing systems and address issues with noticeable impact
• Learn how securities lending, collateral, and settlement work and apply it in code

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

REST API design

Distributed systems

Networking basics

Tools

Docker

gRPC

Protobuf

Kafka

Grafana

Temporal

Job description

Alpaca is hiring a Software Engineer for the Securities Finance team to build and run the backend systems behind lending and borrowing products. You will own end-to-end development, from problem framing to production, ensuring reliability and performance in a high-stakes financial infrastructure.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, RESTful API design, and working with Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes. This remote role offers competitive compensation and locations across the Americas and