Senior Software Engineer - Clearing Systems (Remote)

Social Leverage LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Home‑office setup

Monthly stipend via Brex Card

Job summary

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in broker-dealer infrastructure and open-source focused on enabling financial services worldwide. We are a remote-friendly team with 400+ members, building scalable clearing, securities lending, and API-driven products.

The Senior Software Engineer role on the Clearing team focuses on post-trade systems, non-user facing but essential to daily operations, with ongoing integrations and new product offerings.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building reliable and distributed systems.
• Deep interest in how traditional financial markets work.
• Lead on a project from start to finish with minimal supervision.
• Strong ownership mindset and accountability for code and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own projects from ideation to deployment, cutting through ambiguity to build what’s necessary.
• Design and build new systems that let us enable new products for the company or unlock more revenue.
• Refine our existing systems and improve them in ways that matter.
• Participate in on-call rotation to keep systems healthy and available.

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Tools

Kafka

Grafana

Docker

Protobuf

Temporal

Helm

Job description

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in broker-dealer infrastructure and open-source focused on enabling financial services worldwide. We are a remote-friendly team with 400+ members, building scalable clearing, securities lending, and API-driven products.

The Senior Software Engineer role on the Clearing team focuses on post-trade systems, non-user facing but essential to daily operations, with ongoing integrations and new product offerings.