Senior Software Engineer – Risk
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer building scalable risk, AML, fraud, and operational controls. Supporting Alpaca’s global brokerage infrastructure through resilient financial systems and automation.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain reliable systems supporting Risk, AML, Fraud, Clearing, and Operations
- Build real-time and near-real-time controls, alerts, and enforcement mechanisms to identify and mitigate financial, compliance, fraud, and operational risks
- Work with Risk, Compliance, AML, Fraud, Clearing, Operations, Product, and Engineering to translate business and regulatory requirements into technical solutions
- Develop dashboards, alerting, investigation tools, and internal systems for visibility into transactions, exposures, exceptions, suspicious activity, and operational issues
- Transform manual processes into scalable, efficient, and auditable workflows
- Investigate and resolve financial, fraud, clearing, and operational incidents; perform root-cause analysis and reduce recurrence
- Build reliable, observable, testable, performant, resilient, and auditable systems for a regulated financial environment
Requirements:
- Financial services domain experience in brokerage, fintech, banking, payments, or another regulated financial environment, with exposure to Risk, AML, Fraud, Clearing, or Operations
- Experience building automated controls, rules engines, monitoring, alerting, case management, or exception-handling workflows
- Experience supporting transaction monitoring, fraud detection, suspicious activity identification, customer/account controls, or related compliance workflows
- Familiarity with trading and post-trade workflows, including clearing, settlement, reconciliations, positions, balances, money movement, or exception management
- Experience turning manual, high-volume operational processes into scalable, reliable, and auditable systems and internal tooling
- Experience working with large and complex financial datasets, pipelines, and services for monitoring, investigations, reconciliation, reporting, and decision-making
- Ability to work directly with Risk, Compliance, Fraud, Clearing, and Operations teams to translate complex business problems into technical solutions
- Strong problem-solving skills and proactive mindset
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Preference for simple and elegant solutions
- At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Proven experience building and maintaining microservices
- Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
- Ability to write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code
- Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design
- Ability to debug issues and foresee problems
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience with distributed systems design
Benefits:
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Similar Jobs
Senior Software Engineer – iGaming
Senior Software Engineer building scalable iGaming applications with Elixir and real-time data processing. Leading architecture, performance optimisation, integrations, and complex domain logic development.
Fullstack Developer
Fullstack Developer building Java backend services and React interfaces for Playtech’s player engagement products. Developing gaming features such as tournaments, missions, rewards, and CRM campaigns.
Product Engineer
Product Engineer building and shipping AI-assisted features for Periskope, a WhatsApp customer-conversations and operations platform. Owning customer problems, production code, and product outcomes end to end.
Senior Software Engineer – Europe
Senior Software Engineer owning full-stack React and TypeScript fintech platforms at Reap, a stablecoin-powered financial technology company. Improving cross-border payments, reliability, and customer-facing products.
Software Engineer, React, Node.js
Software Engineer building React and Node.js interfaces for Accesa’s retail technology client. Developing accessible, performant frontend solutions with GraphQL, testing, and design systems.
Senior Software Engineer, React, Node.js
Senior Software Engineer building responsive React and Node.js interfaces for Accesa’s retail technology client. Developing tested, accessible, high-performance frontend solutions with GraphQL and modern cloud tools.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer, TypeScript, AI
Full-stack engineer building TypeScript, React and AI features for eventfirst’s event-planning platform. Owning product development across frontend, backend and database in a remote senior team.
Product Engineer
Product Engineer scaling Community Phone’s cellular landline service to support 100,000+ customers. Building end-to-end features across TypeScript, React, Python, Django, and Go.
Product Engineer
Product Engineer scaling Community Phone’s phone and messaging platform for 100,000+ customers. Building end-to-end features and owning product outcomes across a remote global team.
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer building Kimedics’ healthcare staffing and scheduling platform. Delivering distributed systems, cloud solutions, and production features while mentoring engineers.
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer building Kimedics’ healthcare staffing and scheduling platform. Designing distributed systems, delivering production features, and mentoring engineering teammates.
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer building BigPanda’s generative AI platform for enterprise IT Operations. Shipping agentic automation, incident response, workflow, and operational intelligence capabilities.
Software Engineering Technical Leader
Technical leader building Cisco’s AI-native platform for acquisition analysis and integration. Guiding architecture, full-stack cloud development, and large-scale M&A programs.
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer building scalable microservices and AI-powered conversational systems. Engineering for Grupo QuintoAndar, Latin America’s largest real estate ecosystem.
Staff Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer designing scalable distributed systems for Grupo QuintoAndar, Latin America’s real estate ecosystem. Building AI-powered conversational journeys, microservices orchestration, and real-time ML systems.
Power Staff Engineer
Staff Engineer supporting power agreements, AI/GPU load strategy, and substation engineering for Nscale’s AI GPU cloud. Providing system studies, technical analysis, and commissioning support.
Power Staff Engineer
Power Staff Engineer supporting power systems, utility strategy, and substation engineering. Designing infrastructure that enables Nscale’s high-performance GPU cloud for AI customers.
Fullstack Developer, Python/React
Fullstack Developer modernizing legacy Delphi and Zoho applications for CodeRoad’s technology execution clients. Building Python, Django, React, API, and database solutions remotely.
Full Stack Software Engineer – .NET, C# & React
Full Stack Software Engineer building AI-assisted .NET and React applications for a U.S. housing market data company. Developing scalable web apps, APIs, and production-ready AI-generated code.
Senior Mobile Engineer – Full Stack
Senior Mobile Engineer building scalable consumer mobile apps focused on security and user protection. Arionkoder is an AI consulting firm delivering digital products and AI systems.