Senior Software Engineer - Corporate Actions & Security Master

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Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure  for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply. About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer on the Reference Data team, you will build services that form the data backbone of Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure. Almost every service at Alpaca needs information about the assets it operates on. Our team provides that information and supports the events that affect those assets throughout their lifecycle. The team owns two core areas: Security Master , the central source of information about tradable assets, their characteristics and whether, when, and how they can be traded; and corporate actions , which involves ingesting third-party information about dividends, stock splits, mergers and other events, then calculating the changes and transactions needed to reflect them in customer and partner holdings. You will work across both areas, helping Alpaca enter new markets, expand its portfolio of products and improve the reliability, performance and operability of existing systems. This is a hands-on backend engineering role focused on distributed systems, data modelling and correctness across interconnected services. You will take open-ended problems from scoping and design through implementation, rollout and production support, working closely with the teams that depend on reference data. Things You Get To Do <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="f16c7e735f2b" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="bulletList" data-prosemirror-node-block