Senior Software Engineer - Clearing

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p> <p><strong>Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure&nbsp;</strong>for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>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.</strong><br><br><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p> <p>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!<br><br>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.</p></div><h3><strong>Your Role:</strong></h3> <p>As a Senior Software Engineer on the Clearing team you’ll work on what happens after the trade is made. Most of the work we do is not user facing (although we have some user facing systems as well) but is very much essential to the day to day operations of a Broker Dealer company.</p> <p>During the past couple years we’ve become&nbsp;<a href="https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-successfully-transitions-to-self-clearing-at-dtcc/">self-clearing in US equities</a>, <a href="https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-secures-occ-and-ficc-memberships-to-power-multi-asset-self-clearing-for-partners/">US options</a>, and this is the team at the heart of those achievements. We’re not stopping there: there are always new (not yet announced) integrations to build, and new product offerings to enable through those integrations.</p> <p>Beyond core clearing, we also work on securities finance rel