Staff Software Engineer - Margin & Risk
Core
Lead technical direction for margin and risk systems protecting Alpaca and customers from financial exposure across equities, options, and crypto.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Margin & Risk)
Builds
Real-time risk enforcement, margin calculation, and exposure limit systems for a global brokerage platform.
Domain
Financial services / Brokerage infrastructure / Risk management
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Backend/distributed systems architecture, Go (preferred) or Java/C++/Rust, relational databases (PostgreSQL), event-driven systems (Kafka/gRPC), Kubernetes, transactional integrity, low-latency system design, technical mentorship
Preferred skills
Margin/risk experience across multiple asset classes, derivatives knowledge, brokerage/clearing systems background, workflow orchestration (Temporal), production performance tuning
Responsibilities
Own architecture and roadmap for margin/risk across asset classes, design services for complex regulatory rules, lead real-time risk enforcement on the order path, drive reliability and performance, partner with Compliance and Operations, set standards for correctness, mentor engineers, act as escalation point for production issues
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership