# Staff Software Engineer - Margin & Risk

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+ gl

- **Id**: 1105657
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/alpaca-staff-software-engineer-margin-risk>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_regions
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US, DE, FR, GB, AT, BE, BG, CA, HR, CZ, DK, FI, HU, IE, IT, MX, NL, NO, PL, RO, ES, SE, CH, AI, AG, AW, BS, BB, BZ, BM
- **Hiring countries total**: 69
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T04:21:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T22:15:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6975
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance, Crypto Wallets, Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 3826
- **Name**: Alpaca
- **Domain**: alpaca.markets
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/alpaca>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.625
- **Repost share**: 0.125
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 54
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 184000
- **Max usd**: 395000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 2415

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: region
- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: region
- **France** — Iso: FR; Kind: region
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: region
- **Austria** — Iso: AT; Kind: region
- **Belgium** — Iso: BE; Kind: region
- **Bulgaria** — Iso: BG; Kind: region
- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: region
- **Croatia** — Iso: HR; Kind: region
- **Czech Republic** — Iso: CZ; Kind: region
- **Denmark** — Iso: DK; Kind: region
- **Finland** — Iso: FI; Kind: region
- **Hungary** — Iso: HU; Kind: region
- **Ireland** — Iso: IE; Kind: region
- **Italy** — Iso: IT; Kind: region
- **Mexico** — Iso: MX; Kind: region
- **Netherlands** — Iso: NL; Kind: region
- **Norway** — Iso: NO; Kind: region
- **Poland** — Iso: PL; Kind: region
- **Romania** — Iso: RO; Kind: region
- **Spain** — Iso: ES; Kind: region
- **Sweden** — Iso: SE; Kind: region
- **Switzerland** — Iso: CH; Kind: region
- **Anguilla** — Iso: AI; Kind: region
- **Antigua and Barbuda** — Iso: AG; Kind: region
- **Aruba** — Iso: AW; Kind: region
- **Bahamas** — Iso: BS; Kind: region
- **Barbados** — Iso: BB; Kind: region
- **Belize** — Iso: BZ; Kind: region
- **Bermuda** — Iso: BM; Kind: region
- **British Virgin Islands** — Iso: VG; Kind: region
- **Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba** — Iso: BQ; Kind: region
- **Cayman Islands** — Iso: KY; Kind: region
- **Costa Rica** — Iso: CR; Kind: region
- **Curaçao** — Iso: CW; Kind: region
- **Dominica** — Iso: DM; Kind: region
- **Dominican Republic** — Iso: DO; Kind: region
- **El Salvador** — Iso: SV; Kind: region
- **Estonia** — Iso: EE; Kind: region
- **Greece** — Iso: GR; Kind: region
- **Greenland** — Iso: GL; Kind: region
- **Grenada** — Iso: GD; Kind: region
- **Guadeloupe** — Iso: GP; Kind: region
- **Guatemala** — Iso: GT; Kind: region
- **Haiti** — Iso: HT; Kind: region
- **Honduras** — Iso: HN; Kind: region
- **Iceland** — Iso: IS; Kind: region
- **Jamaica** — Iso: JM; Kind: region
- **Latvia** — Iso: LV; Kind: region
- **Liechtenstein** — Iso: LI; Kind: region
- … 19 more in the JSON form

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T04:37:14Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 34
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 0.6
- **P active**: 0.75
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 54
- **Reasons**: seen:35, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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