Alpaca
Data Analyst
Remote - Americas
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
PythonSQLPostgreSQLPandasNumPySparkdbtAccounting
About the role
- We're looking for a Data Analyst to help make Alpaca data-driven from the ground up.
- This role is ideal for someone who wants to take on meaningful ownership, embed deeply with subject matter experts to quickly assimilate complex brokerage knowledge, and dig deeply into data to understand why things are happening, not just what is happening.
Responsibilities
- Partner and embed with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous business and operational questions into clear, useful analytical outputs.
- Build and own analytics data models. Write clean, maintainable SQL against PostgreSQL, Trino, and Apache Iceberg to power core financial metrics, dashboards, and analytical workflows.
- Build and iterate on metrics and tables. Build and iterate on metrics and tables using dbt, surfacing them through dashboards in Metabase to help teams understand transaction volumes, revenue streams, and system performance over time.
- Analytics Engineering Familiarity. Prior exposure to building analytical data models or metrics tables using dbt or similar analytics-engineering workflows.
- Clear Communicator & Collaborator. Can share insights effectively with technical and non-technical partners, acting as a bridge between data infrastructure and business operations.
Requirements
- Python & Notebook Proficiency.
- Comfortable using SQL as the primary analysis tool, with the ability to use Python (Pandas, NumPy) and Jupyter Notebooks for deeper, more efficient programmatic analysis.
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.