Alpaca
Director of Engineering, Trading
Remote - North America · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
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About the role
- This strategic expansion ensures a robust and reliable foundation for all active traders, while tailoring our industry-leading brokerage platform to meet the demanding needs of institutional investors.
- You will work closely with the Global Head of Brokerage and other senior leaders to evolve Alpaca's platform toward a multi-asset, cross-margining offering spanning FX, futures, and other derivatives alongside existing equities and options.
- Set and enforce technical standards for performance, availability, scalability, and operational resilience in latency-sensitive systems
Responsibilities
- Define and own and execute the engineering roadmap for Alpaca's institutional trading platform
- Build, lead, and scale a high-performing team of engineers with a strong culture of ownership and execution
- Partner with the Office of the CTO and Global Head of Brokerage to align engineering priorities with institutional and prime brokerage strategy
- Lead the evolution toward a multi-asset trading architecture supporting cross-margining across equities, options, FX, futures, and other derivatives
- Design and deliver institutional trading capabilities, including but not limited to:
- Drive architectural decisions across trading APIs, our proprietary order management system, real-time risk, and margin engines
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Finance to deliver production-ready systems
- Reporting to the CPO/CTO/OCTO [TBD], you will build and scale a focused engineering organization responsible for institutional trading capabilities across multiple asset classes.
Requirements
- A Director-level (or above) engineering leader with experience owning critical, market-facing platforms
- Strong architectural judgment and the ability to balance speed, reliability, and control in regulated environments
- Experience with algorithmic trading systems across multiple asset classes
- Experience contributing to architecture standards or externally visible technical initiatives
- Who You Are (Must-Haves):
Compensation
- One-time USD $500
- USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Benefits
- Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
Company info
- Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
- 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 9 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 top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
- Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and 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 9 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.
- Our Team Members:
- We're a dynamic team of 380+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!
- We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth.
- If you align with our core values-Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable-and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
This listing is sourced directly from Alpaca's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.