Staff Software Engineer – Margin & Risk

Job overview

The Staff Software Engineer – Margin & Risk role is listed in New York, NY; the description also says Alpaca’s team is globally distributed, but does not specify this role’s work arrangement. Compensation is not specified; the posting mentions competitive salary and stock options. The role supports Alpaca’s Margin & Risk team within Prime Engine, which builds systems to manage financial exposure across asset classes. The engineer leads technical direction and remains a principal contributor, designing and building reliable, low-latency systems for margin calculations, risk limits, and margin-call workflows. The work helps protect Alpaca, its partners, and their customers while supporting the platform’s expansion to additional asset classes.

What you'll do

• Own architecture and technical roadmap for margin and risk across asset classes
• build services that implement margin methodologies and regulatory rules
• lead real-time risk enforcement
• improve reliability and performance
• partner with Product, Brokerage Operations, Compliance, and engineering teams
• establish correctness practices
• lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and address production issues.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff software engineer

margin & risk

backend engineering

distributed systems

go

postgresql

kubernetes

financial technology

brokerage infrastructure

new york ny

alpaca

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Health benefits, stock options, one-time $500 home-office setup, and a $150 monthly stipend.

Why this role

Technical leadership without direct people management, in a high-consequence financial systems domain spanning multiple asset classes.

About the employer

Alpaca is hiring for this role. Industry: Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation. Sector: 52.