Software Engineer, Securities Finance

Accountabilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain backend systems supporting securities lending, borrowing, and related brokerage services.

• Develop and enhance infrastructure for Fully Paid Securities Lending (FPSL), enabling customer securities to be lent and associated revenue to be shared with customers.

• Build and maintain customer short-borrowing capabilities, including systems that source hard-to-borrow securities.

• Develop partner-facing RESTful APIs, batch-processing pipelines, and integrations that support new products and revenue opportunities.

• Maintain and improve systems responsible for short-selling infrastructure, securities finance revenue, and essential internal brokerage operations.

• Take ownership of engineering projects from initial requirements and solution design through implementation, production deployment, and ongoing support.

• Improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of existing systems, addressing recurring incidents through root-cause analysis and lasting fixes.

• Design and operate data-intensive workflows, including scheduled batch jobs, file-based integrations, and reconciliation processes.

• Apply strong engineering fundamentals to identify and address failure scenarios across distributed systems, databases, networks, and infrastructure.

• Collaborate with engineering colleagues and relevant stakeholders to make sound technical decisions, assess trade-offs, and deliver maintainable solutions.

• Participate in the on-call rotation, respond to production incidents, and contribute to operational improvements that reduce recurring issues.

• Develop expertise in securities lending, collateral management, settlement processes, and the regulatory requirements governing short selling.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional experience building and operating distributed systems in production environments.

• Strong proficiency in Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.

• Solid computer science and software engineering fundamentals, particularly in networking, databases, distributed systems, and their failure modes.

• Ability to design clear, effective RESTful APIs and evaluate existing API designs critically.

• Experience taking software projects from planning and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing production ownership.

• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to make thoughtful technical decisions based on long-term impact and reversibility.

• A high degree of accountability, including the willingness to investigate and resolve unfamiliar technical problems without waiting for others to take ownership.

• Genuine curiosity about financial markets, brokerage infrastructure, and the systems that support securities trading and lending.

• Ability to communicate technical reasoning clearly, challenge decisions constructively, and collaborate effectively once a direction has been established.

• A commitment to building dependable financial systems where correctness, security, and reliability are essential.

• Preferred: Experience in securities clearing, securities settlement, securities finance, or related financial services infrastructure.

• Preferred: Familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, Kafka or Redpanda, Grafana, Helm, and Docker.

• Preferred: Experience with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration technologies.

• Preferred: Comfort working with daily batch jobs, file-based integrations, and financial reconciliation processes.

• Preferred: Familiarity with broker-dealer operations, Regulation SHO (Reg SHO), or short-selling rules.

• Application detail: Include a specific deep-sea tunnel that fascinates you in your application, as requested in the original posting.

• Application materials: Be prepared to provide your resume, GitHub or GitLab profile, LinkedIn profile, and the location and time zone from which you will work.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: Salary details are not specified in the provided posting and should be confirmed during the hiring process.

• Equity: Stock options, subject to the applicable compensation plan and eligibility requirements.

• Health benefits: Healthcare benefits are offered; specific coverage and eligibility details should be confirmed.

• Home-office setup: One-time USD 500 allowance for new-hire home-office equipment and setup.

• Monthly stipend: USD 150 per month provided through a Brex Card.

• Remote work: Opportunity to work remotely from the Americas, including Brazil, subject to the role's location and time-zone requirements.

• Global collaboration: Work with an internationally distributed team of engineers, traders, and financial technology professionals.

• Technical ownership: Opportunity to lead projects end to end and influence systems supporting securities finance and brokerage operations.

• Professional development: Build practical expertise in distributed systems, financial infrastructure, securities lending, settlement, and market regulations.