Alpaca

<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p><p><strong>Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure </strong>for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.<br><br>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 10 million brokerage accounts.<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.</strong><br><br><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p><p>We're a dynamic team of 400+ 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!<br><br>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.</p><h2>Your Role:</h2> <p>Your job is to lead the team building Alpaca's algo trading platform to satisfy our users who expect high quality and performance from their brokerage service. You will design and architect our platform by wearing many different hats in a small team. As a Team Lead you will still write code and make critical technical decisions, but you are also accountable for how the team works: what it builds, how it prioritizes, how it grows, and how reliably it ships.</p><p>This is a hands-on leadership role, not a pure management role. We expect you to stay close to the code and the system, and to spend a meaningful part of your time in the codebase, in design reviews, and on production issues. At the same time you will own the team's roadmap, its delivery, and the development of the engineers on it.</p><p>The technical bar for this role is the same as our Senior/Staff Software Engineer bar: deep knowledge in both frontend and backend, databases and distributed systems, as well as broad experience from low to high level in CPU-level hardware for high throughput, robust concurrency system design, abstract distributed system architecture for high availability and object-oriented data modeling with long term growth in mind.</p><p>You must have previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading), and previous experience leading engineers.</p><p><strong>What you will own:</strong></p><ul><li>Technical direction and architecture for the team's services, including trade-off decisions and their long term consequences</li><li>Roadmap and delivery: breaking down ambiguous business goals into scoped, sequenced engineering work and shipping it predictably</li><li>Day-to-day execution: sprint or cycle planning, unblocking engineers, keeping work in flight visible to stakeholders</li><li>Code and design quality: setting the standard through reviews, design docs, and your own contributions</li><li>Production ownership: reliability, latency and correctness targets for the team's systems, on-call health, and incident follow-through</li><li>People: hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, feedback, performance and career growth for a small team of engineers</li><li>Cross-team collaboration with product, operations, compliance, clearing and the other engineering teams</li></ul> <p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p><ul><li>Strong, experienced software engineer at a senior or staff level who has led a team, formally or as a tech lead</li><li>Demonstrated ability to grow engineers: mentoring, feedback, and raising the level of people around you</li><li>Track record of delivering complex systems on schedule, including scoping, sequencing and cutting the right things</li><li>Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python</li><li>Low latency and high throughput optimization</li><li>Experience with messaging queues and message brokers</li><li>Analytical data-oriented mindset and skills</li><li>Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems and concurrency control</li><li>System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction</li><li>Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS)</li><li>Clear written and verbal communication, including with non-engineering stakeholders</li><li>Comfort operating with ambiguity and limited process, as expected at an early stage startup</li></ul> <p><strong>Nice to have:</strong></p><ul><li>Experience hiring and building out an engineering team from a small base</li><li>Experience owning a production trading or brokerage system as the accountable lead</li><li>Algo trading experience (either professional or personal)</li><li>FIX protocol knowledge</li><li>Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking</li><li>Financial market (exchange, broker-dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge</li><li>Experience with financial ledgers</li><li>Statistical and quantitative analysis skills</li><li>Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)</li><li>Experience with Docker and Kubernetes</li><li>Experience working with distributed, remote-first teams across time zones</li></ul><p><h2>How We Take Care of You:</h2> <ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul> <p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br></em></p><p><a href='https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf'><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em></a></p>

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Other

<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p><p><strong>Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure </strong>for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.<br><br>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 10 million brokerage accounts.<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.</strong><br><br><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p><p>We're a dynamic team of 400+ 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!<br><br>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.</p><h2>Your Role</h2> <p>As a Senior Technical Recruiter, you’ll own full-cycle recruiting for high-impact technical roles across Alpaca, primarily within Engineering. You’ll partner closely with Engineering leaders to build hiring strategies, develop strong talent pipelines, and drive searches from kickoff through close.</p><p>You’ll thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple concurrent technical searches while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, a high-quality candidate experience, and clear visibility into hiring progress and performance.</p><h2>Things You’ll Do</h2> <ul><li>Own full-cycle recruiting across a high volume of technical roles, from sourcing through offer and close.</li><li>Partner closely with Engineering leaders and hiring managers to define profiles, develop hiring strategies, and drive searches forward.</li><li>Build proactive technical talent pipelines through outbound sourcing, referrals, networking, and talent mapping.</li><li>Manage competing priorities and a high req load while maintaining hiring quality and velocity.</li><li>Provide clear reporting on pipeline health, funnel performance, hiring progress, and risks.</li><li>Use recruiting data to identify gaps, improve conversion, and inform hiring decisions.</li><li>Deliver a high-quality candidate experience through clear communication and efficient processes.</li><li>Leverage AI and recruiting technology to improve sourcing, research, reporting, and recruiter productivity.</li><li>Maintain strong ATS hygiene and help continuously improve recruiting processes and workflows.</li></ul> <h2>Who You Are (Must-Haves)</h2> <ul><li>6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a strong track record of hiring software engineers and other technical talent.</li><li>Proven ability to successfully manage a high volume of concurrent technical searches.</li><li>Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, advise, and build credibility with Engineering leaders.</li><li>Strong sourcing skills and a track record of building pipelines for difficult-to-fill technical roles.</li><li>Experienced in using ATS reporting, funnel metrics, and recruiting data to communicate hiring performance and drive decisions.</li><li>Skilled in using AI tools and modern recruiting technology to improve efficiency and recruiting outcomes.</li><li>Strong communication, organization, and prioritization skills.</li><li>Experience working in fast-paced, remote or distributed teams.</li></ul> <h2>Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves)</h2> <ul><li>Background recruiting in fintech, trading, brokerage, crypto, or other highly technical environments.</li><li>Experience hiring backend, infrastructure, platform, API, data, or distributed systems engineers.</li><li>Exposure to recruiting across multiple global markets.</li><li>Experience with Greenhouse or similar ATS platforms and recruiting dashboards.</li></ul> <p><h3>How We Take Care of You:</h3> <ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul> <p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br></em></p><p><a href='https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf'><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em></a></p>

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Engineering

<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p><p>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 <a href='https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/'>recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.</p><p>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.</p><p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p><p>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!<br><br>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.</p><p><strong>Your Role:</strong></p><p><br>Join Alpaca Securities’ dynamic and fully remote Compliance team dedicated to safeguarding the integrity of the financial markets. In this role, you will play a critical part in supporting the firm’s BSA/AML, Anti-Fraud, and Securities Fraud Monitoring programs. You will lead and support investigations, ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, and help build a scalable and risk-based compliance infrastructure that meets evolving business and regulatory demands. This position reports directly to the AMLCO (Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer).</p><p><br><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p><p><ul><li>Collaborate with the AMLCO to implement and refine investigative procedures cross CIP/KYC, AML, Anti-Fraud, and Securities Fraud Monitoring initiatives.</li><li>Conduct in-depth investigations into potentially suspicious activity, including securities fraud, account manipulation, and other financial crimes identified through transaction monitoring alerts, escalations, and referrals.</li><li>Prepare, document, and file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in compliance with</li><li>FinCEN requirements and internal policies.</li><li>Review and respond to sanctions screening alerts, FinCEN 314(a) and 314(b) requests, and other regulatory inquiries.</li><li>Maintain and continuously update firm-wide risk assessments covering BSA/AML, sanctions, fraud, and securities surveillance programs.</li><li>Partner with internal stakeholders and assist during external audits, examinations, and regulatory engagements.</li><li>Provide guidance and support across various business units, including trading, operations, and customer support, to ensure alignment with compliance protocols.</li><li>Stay abreast of regulatory developments and industry best practices, particularly those related to the Bank Secrecy Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC regulations, and SEC/FINRA rules.</li><li>Support the development and refinement of policies, procedures, monitoring controls, and compliance reporting mechanisms.</li><li>Lead and contribute to special projects, compile investigative findings, and prepare reports for management, regulators, and auditors.</li></ul> </p><p><br><strong>What You Bring (Required Qualifications):</strong></p><p><ul><li>1–3 years of experience in financial crime investigations (AML, fraud, securities</li><li>fraud, or related disciplines).</li><li>Strong understanding of U.S. regulatory requirements (e.g., BSA/AML, USA</li><li>PATRIOT Act, SEC/FINRA regulations).</li><li>Demonstrated ability to identify and escalate potential market manipulation or</li><li>suspicious trading activity.</li><li>Proficiency in transaction monitoring systems and case management tools.</li><li>Strong analytical, documentation, and SAR-writing skills.</li><li>Effective communication and problem-solving abilities.</li><li>Experience with Google Sheets or MS Excel, including pivot tables and advanced</li><li>filtering.</li><li>Working knowledge of domestic and international payment systems.</li></ul> </p><p><h2>How We Take Care of You:</h2> <ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul> <p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br></em></p><p><a href='https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf'><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em></a></p>

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Business

<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p><p><strong>Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure </strong>for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.<br><br>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 10 million brokerage accounts.<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.</strong><br><br><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p><p>We're a dynamic team of 400+ 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!<br><br>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.</p><p><strong>Your Role:</strong></p><p>As Lead, Data Governance, you will help build and run Alpaca's data governance and data security program across our lakehouse, analytics tools, and internal data products. You'll set the standards for how we classify data, who can access it, and how we protect it, working closely with Data Engineering and Data Science to put those standards into practice.</p><p>Our data environment has grown quickly. We run several data solutions, and we handle more cross-region data every year across the US, Japan, EU, and other markets. We are also evaluating new analytics and AI tools on a regular basis. Access controls have not always kept pace, and we need someone who can help us catch up and stay ahead of partner and regulatory expectations.</p><p>The team is fully remote. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports. You'll report to our Chief Information &amp; Security Officer (CISO) and work closely with Data Engineering and Data Science through a dotted-line relationship. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Things You Get To Do</strong></p><p>- Build and maintain our data governance policies, classification standards, ownership model, and exception process, in line with Security and Privacy requirements</p><p>- Own data access governance for the lakehouse and analytics stack, including entitlement standards, periodic access reviews, and least-privilege access across Trino, Ranger, Cube, Metabase, and related tools</p><p>- Work with Data Engineering on the technical side of controls such as Ranger policies, schema restrictions, and service account management</p><p>- Set data quality standards and help Data teams track and improve against them</p><p>- Keep our data inventory, metadata, and lineage documentation current for compliance and audit purposes</p><p>- Review data-related vendors and new use cases (analytics platforms, reverse ETL, AI query tools, notebooks, and similar) with Security, Privacy, and Legal</p><p>- Support sensitive and cross-border data requests, including PII handling and regional data flows for Engineering, Operations, and New Markets</p><p>- Prepare evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, CSA STAR, partner security reviews, and regulatory exams</p><p>- Track data risks and control gaps as part of our Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) program</p><p>- Be the go-to governance partner for Data and Security on access, classification, and tooling questions</p><p>- Help define guardrails as we expand AI and agentic use of corporate data in analytics workflows</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Who You Are (Must-Haves)</strong></p><p>- 5+ years in data governance, data security, GRC, privacy engineering, or a related field</p><p>- At least 2 years working with modern data platforms (lakehouse/warehouse, SQL engines, BI, semantic layers)</p><p>- Solid grasp of data governance frameworks (DAMA-DMBOK, NIST, or similar) and how to apply them in a company that moves quickly</p><p>- You've built or run data classification, access control, or entitlement review programs, not just written the policies</p><p>- Familiar with cloud data platforms (GCP a plus) and typical analytics tooling</p><p>- Working knowledge of privacy and regulatory requirements in financial services (GDPR, CCPA, cross-border transfers, and similar)</p><p>- Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar audits</p><p>- You work well with engineering teams and know how to push for good controls without becoming a bottleneck</p><p>- Strong written and verbal communication skills</p><p>- Organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable in a fast-paced remote environment</p><p>- Comfortable as an IC with no direct reports</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves)</strong></p><p>- Fintech, brokerage, or regulated financial services background</p><p>- Hands-on experience with Trino, Apache Ranger, dbt, Cube, Metabase, Airflow, or Iceberg</p><p>- Experience reviewing AI/ML and analytics tools</p><p>- Privacy program or vendor/DPA review experience</p><p>- CIPT, CIPM, CISM, CISSP, CDMP, CRISC, or similar certifications</p><p>- You've been the first governance hire at a growing company before</p><p>- Experience with Japan or EU data residency and cross-border data issues</p><p>- Exposure to ERM or operational risk</p><p>- Remote or distributed team experience</p><p><h2>How We Take Care of You:</h2> <ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul> <p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br></em></p><p><a href='https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf'><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em></a></p>

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Data

<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p><p><strong>Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure </strong>for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.<br><br>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 10 million brokerage accounts.<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.</strong><br><br><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p><p>We're a dynamic team of 400+ 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!<br><br>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.</p><p><strong>Your Role:</strong></p><h2>Your Role:</h2> <p>As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form Alpaca's foundation and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets. You will be responsible for regional recruitment initiatives, supporting cross-functional team projects, mentoring talent on our engineering principles and practices, and fostering Alpaca culture in the region. As Senior Engineer, you will also serve as the operational reliability and engineering lead and the incident commander during regional business hours, ensuring proactive 24x7 stability.</p><p>For this role, we are seeking an experienced full-stack engineer dedicated to delivering high-quality, seamless software solutions. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of designing and building scalable applications and is comfortable challenging conventions and advocating for innovative solutions. In this position, you will have the autonomy to architect and implement solutions that meet our strategic objectives while also a collaborative, cross-functional team.</p><h2>Things You Get To Do</h2> <ul><li>Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.</li><li>Develop and enhance the middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI for internal administration and API developers, and third-party vendor integrations.</li><li>Work closely with Alpaca's core teams to enhance and transform the core framework, enabling support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets.</li><li>Collaborate with tech leads in other regions both synchronously and asynchronously, using Slack and occasional meetings outside of regular working hours to align with global teams.</li><li>Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.</li><li>Thrive in a global environment, effectively navigating regulatory requirements and building scalable solutions to support Alpaca's international growth.</li><li>You may be asked to be on-call to assist with timely engineering projects.</li></ul> <h2>Who You Are (Must-Haves):</h2> <ul><li>Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset.</li><li>Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures.</li><li>Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders.</li><li>Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority.</li><li>Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience</li><li>Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed team, and under pressure in a fast-paced environment.</li><li>Strategic thinking and the ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies.</li><li>Experience with event-driven design.</li></ul> <h2>Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):</h2> <ul><li>Experience with AI tooling such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex or others.</li><li>Experience working in a startup or fast-growing technology company.</li><li>Knowledge of emerging technologies.</li><li>Experience with domain-driven design</li><li>Experience working with global teams</li><li>Experience in the financial services industry, specifically with online trading platforms, brokerage systems, or fintech companies.</li><li>Experience in designing and developing complex financial systems, preferably including double-entry accounting.</li><li>Understanding of financial transaction processing, trade lifecycle management, and settlement processes.</li><li>Strong experience with online trading systems, including order management, execution, market data processing, and real-time trade processing.</li><li>Experience in building scalable, high-availability financial applications that handle multi-currency transactions.</li><li>Experience working with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes.</li><li>Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets.</li></ul><p><h2>How We Take Care of You:</h2> <ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul> <p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br></em></p><p><a href='https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf'><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em></a></p>

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Engineering

<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p><p><strong>Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure </strong>for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.<br><br>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 10 million brokerage accounts.<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.</strong><br><br><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p><p>We're a dynamic team of 400+ 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!<br><br>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.</p><h2>Role</h2> <p>As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will design, build and operate the infrastructure that lets Alpaca scale globally and run trading-critical systems with confidence. You will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions against clearly defined goals - and a real voice in shaping those goals with the team.</p><p>We are not hiring a specialist in any single tool. We are looking for a well-rounded infrastructure engineer who thinks in cloud architecture and Infrastructure-as-Code, with a genuine Platform-as-a-Product mindset: someone who measures success by how quickly and safely the rest of engineering can ship, and who treats manual toil as a bug to be engineered away. You are comfortable operating our data stores (PostgreSQL, Message Brokers) at an operator level, partnering with our SRE and database specialists on the deeper work.</p><p><strong>Things You Get To Do</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Design and evolve </strong>our cloud architecture on GCP - networking, interconnects, IAM and high-availability topology - and express it entirely as code with Terraform, following GitOps as a first principle.</li><li><strong>Build and own </strong>the CI/CD pipelines that plan, review, test and safely apply IaC changes - Policy-as-Code guardrails, drift detection and progressive rollout so infrastructure changes ship as confidently as application code.</li><li><strong>Advance </strong>Platform-as-a-Product: build self-serve capabilities and paved paths so engineers can provision what they need, through a golden path rather than a hand-off.</li><li><strong>Strengthen </strong>our observability stack - metrics, logs, traces and alerting across Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Alertmanager - so the platform is easy to run and reason about.</li><li><strong>Operate </strong>our GKE clusters and the infrastructure services that run on them - Helm-packaged workloads, message brokers (RabbitMQ, IBM MQ) and data stores.</li><li><strong>Participate </strong>in our Follow-The-Sun on-call model: watch and triage alerts, join and declare incidents, lead structured debugging and escalation, and drive blameless post-mortems and the post-actions that actually close the loop.</li><li><strong>Embed </strong>SRE practices - SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, capacity planning - into how Core Infrastructure builds and operates, working closely with our SRE function.</li></ul> <p><strong>Who You Are (Must-Haves)</strong></p><ul><li>5+ years in a DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or SRE role, with a proven track record operating large-scale, high-availability, high-performance systems in production.</li><li>Deep hands-on experience designing cloud architecture on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the primary cloud - landing zones, networking, IAM and high-availability topology.</li><li>Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform, structuring large codebases across multiple environments, with GitOps as a first principle and least-privilege as a default mindset.</li><li>Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines for IaC - automated plan/apply, code review, Policy-as-Code, drift detection and safe rollout.</li><li>Significant production experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE) and packaging/deploying workloads with Helm.</li><li>Solid cloud and L3/L4-L7 networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, TLS, interconnects) and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity.</li><li>Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack - Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Alertmanager - across metrics, logs, traces and alerting.</li><li>Operator-level familiarity with data stores such as PostgreSQL and Message Brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ, RedPanda) - able to run and troubleshoot them in production.</li><li>A good understanding of SRE practices - SLOs/error budgets, capacity planning - and a Platform-as-a-Product mindset.</li><li>Strong grasp of incident management end to end: joining and declaring incidents, structured debugging under pressure, escalation, clear documentation, and post-mortems that drive real change.</li><li>Able and willing to take part in a Follow-The-Sun on-call rotation from APAC hours, and to work effectively in a distributed, async-first team with strong written communication.</li></ul> <p><strong>Who You Might Be (Bonus Points)</strong></p><p>You can succeed in this role without all of the below, but any of these will help you ramp faster:</p><ul><li>Policy-as-code and IaC quality tooling (OPA/Conftest, Checkov, tflint, Atlantis, or similar).</li><li>Experience managing Terraform state, module registries and versioning at scale across many teams.</li><li>Experience building self-serve developer platforms and internal golden paths (e.g. with Backstage, Tilt, or similar).</li><li>Experience with the Alloy collector and with incident tooling such as Rootly.</li><li>Working proficiency in Go for automation and tooling.</li><li>Strong Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) and container (Docker/containerd) fundamentals.</li><li>Security and compliance experience in a regulated environment (SOC 2, secrets management, audit logging).</li><li>Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or other regulated fintech domains, and with low-latency systems.</li></ul><p><h2>How We Take Care of You:</h2> <ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul> <p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br></em></p><p><a href='https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf'><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em></a></p>

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DevOps/SysAdmin

<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p><p>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 <a href='https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/'>recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.</p><p>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.</p><p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p><p>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!<br><br>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.</p><h2>Your Role</h2> <p>As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will build and own the frameworks, tooling, and CI/CD infrastructure that let Alpaca’s engineers ship new features quickly and reliably. This is a software engineering role at its core: you will spend most of your time writing Go, designing automated test frameworks, and digging into application code and Kubernetes when needed. Just as importantly, you will help redefine how we use AI to raise the bar on quality - leveraging LLMs and AI-driven tooling to generate tests, catch regressions before they ship, and turn every incident into durable, automated coverage. We are looking for engineers who treat quality as an engineering discipline and see AI as a force multiplier for it - people who build the systems that make testing fast, reliable, and effortless for the teams that depend on them.</p><h2>Things You Get To Do</h2> <ul><li>Design and build automated test frameworks across our REST and gRPC API surface.</li><li>Leverage AI and LLM-based tooling to accelerate test generation, harden regression coverage, and turn production incidents into automated tests - embedding these practices into the frameworks the whole engineering org relies on.</li><li>Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines - we use a mix of GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build.</li><li>Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests to ensure our platform can handle growing demand.</li><li>Introduce chaos engineering practices - designing fault-injection and resilience experiments that surface failure modes before our customers do.</li><li>Standardize tooling and infrastructure to improve the day-to-day developer experience.</li><li>Partner with other teams to raise test coverage, reliability, and speed across services.</li><li>Dig into application code to root-cause failures and drive fixes to completion.</li><li>Mentor and guide product engineers, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.</li></ul> <h2>Who You Are (Must-Haves)</h2> <ul><li>You have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer building and maintaining production systems.</li><li>You have written code in strongly typed languages and have at least 1 year of experience with Go.</li><li>You are fluent with AI-assisted engineering - you actively use LLM-based tools in your workflow and have a clear point of view on where they elevate quality (and where they don’t).</li><li>You have built and maintained CI pipelines before - ideally with GitHub Actions or Google Cloud Build.</li><li>You have designed and built automated test frameworks, and you understand the challenges microservices pose for reliable integration and end-to-end testing.</li><li>You are familiar with Kubernetes beyond the basics - you can write a Helm chart for a new service with relative ease, you understand best practices around security, and you have prior job experience or certifications to prove this.</li><li>You have worked at a startup before - you understand that things don’t always go according to plan, that there is significant technical debt, that some tasks just need to be done, and that sometimes there are no processes or documentation to guide your hand.</li><li>You are not afraid of taking a task from start to finish - gathering requirements, figuring out and implementing the best technical solution, then deploying and monitoring the results.</li></ul> <h2>Who You Might Be (Bonus Points)</h2> <ul><li>You have used AI/LLM tooling to build QA automation - test generation, flaky-test triage, or incident-to-regression pipelines - and can speak to what worked and what didn’t.</li><li>You have written code in Python or TypeScript, and can build efficient Dockerfiles and secure container images.</li><li>You have implemented load tests with k6 (REST) and ghz (gRPC) and have experience analyzing pprof/trace output.</li><li>You have done IaC deployments with Argo CD or Terraform, or have used Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine before. You are familiar with Tilt and have written a Kubernetes Operator before.</li><li>You have practiced chaos engineering - running fault-injection or resilience experiments with tools like Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos, or Gremlin.</li><li>You are familiar with testing event-driven systems using Kafka (or even better, Redpanda).</li></ul><p><h3>How We Take Care of You:</h3> <ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul> <p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br></em></p><p><a href='https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf'><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em></a></p>

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Engineering

<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p><p><strong>Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure </strong>for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.<br><br>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 10 million brokerage accounts.<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.</strong><br><br><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p><p>We're a dynamic team of 400+ 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!<br><br>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.</p><p><strong>Your Role:</strong></p><p>As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.</p><p>The market data team is responsible for improving the overall architecture of Alpaca connected to data products such as stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets. Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and is tasked with planning, ideating, experimenting, and putting into production the new services, and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly.</p><p>We are looking for senior or staff engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.</p><p><strong>Things You Get To Do:</strong></p><ul><li>Design highly scalable, mission-critical market data provider services</li><li>Maintain good software quality and test coverage</li><li>Participate in code reviews</li><li>Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs</li></ul> <p><strong>Who You Are (Must-Haves):</strong></p><ul><li>BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field</li><li>Minimum 3 years of experience of backend software development</li><li>Hands-on experience with Docker or Kubernetes</li><li>DevOps mindset</li><li>Excited about what we are building at Alpaca</li><li>Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies</li></ul> <p><strong>Who You Might Be</strong> (<strong>Nice-to-Haves): </strong></p><ul><li>Experience working with large datasets</li><li>Experience with Kubernetes (CKA or CKAD certification is a plus)</li><li>Experience with SQL</li><li>Experience with IP networking</li><li>Good understanding of the financial market</li><li>Experience with any of the major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)</li><li>Hands-on knowledge with shell scripting, Linux &amp; Docker</li><li>Knowledge of microservice architectures</li><li>Knowledge of clean code principles</li></ul> <p><strong> Our Tech &amp; Infrastructure Stack:</strong></p><ul><li>GoLang (primary), Python</li><li>REST, gRPC, Websockets, SSE</li><li>Docker, Kubernetes</li><li>Google Cloud Services (Google Kubernetes Engine, BigTable)</li><li>Prometheus, Grafana, ELK</li></ul><p><h2>How We Take Care of You:</h2> <ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul> <p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br></em></p><p><a href='https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf'><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em></a></p>

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Engineering

<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p><p>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 <a href='https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/'>recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.</p><p>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.</p><p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p><p>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!<br><br>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.</p><p><strong>Your Role:</strong></p><p>We're looking for a Data Analyst to help make Alpaca data-driven from the ground up. You will join a highly collaborative team, partnering closely with cross-functional departments (Finance, Operations, Compliance) to build foundational data models, dashboards, and deep-dive analyses that our teams rely on every day.</p><p>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 <em>why</em> things are happening, not just <em>what</em> is happening.</p><h2>What You'll Do</h2> <ul><li>Translate questions into insight. Partner and embed with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous business and operational questions into clear, useful analytical outputs. You will quickly assimilate subject matter expertise across brokerage operations, ledger systems, and compliance.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Explore data deeply to answer open-ended questions. Use SQL as your primary tool, with Python in a notebook environment like Jupyter when helpful, to investigate trends, anomalies, complex profit and loss (P&amp;L) calculations, and trading behaviors, connecting analyses back to real business questions.</li><li>Help operationalize data. Identify structural opportunities for standardizing core business entities, proactively transitioning ad-hoc analytical requests into intuitive, user-friendly self-serve environments.</li><li>Assist with reporting capabilities and streamline report automation, including servicing requests in a timely manner, cataloguing recurring reports, and driving conversations around standardization and productization of data reports.</li></ul> <h2>What We're Looking For</h2> <ul><li>Strong SQL fundamentals. Comfortable with joins, CTEs, window functions, and clear query structure across diverse database environments.</li><li>Analytics Engineering Familiarity. Prior exposure to building analytical data models or metrics tables using dbt or similar analytics-engineering workflows.</li><li>Deep Analytical Intuition. Able to ask the right questions, explore data thoughtfully, and synthesize clear, well-reasoned conclusions without getting lost in rabbit holes.</li><li>Python &amp; 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.</li><li>Clear Communicator &amp; Collaborator. Can share insights effectively with technical and non-technical partners, acting as a bridge between data infrastructure and business operations.</li><li>Domain Agility. A strong desire to quickly learn the intricacies of a broker-dealer environment, including clearing infrastructure, execution lifecycles, and financial accounting standards.</li></ul> <p><h3>How We Take Care of You:</h3> <ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul> <p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br></em></p><p><a href='https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf'><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em></a></p>

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Other

<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p><p>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 <a href='https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/'>recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.</p><p>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.</p><p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p><p>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!<br><br>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.</p><p><strong>Your Role:</strong> </p><p>We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented International Accounting Manager to oversee global accounting operations and support the company’s expanding international footprint. This role will assist with multi-entity global consolidations, ensuring accurate intercompany accounting and eliminations across multiple international jurisdictions. The International Accounting Manager will partner closely with local entities and cross-functional teams to ensure timely financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence.</p><p><strong>Things You Get To Do:</strong><br></p><ul><li> <h2>Global Accounting &amp; Consolidations</h2> <ul><li>Assist with monthly, quarterly, and annual multi-entity global consolidations.</li><li>Ensure accurate intercompany accounting, reconciliations, and eliminations across subsidiaries.</li><li>Review and analyze consolidated financial results and supporting schedules.</li><li>Support foreign currency translation and consolidation adjustments.</li><li>Maintain accurate records of cross-border transactions and intercompany balances.</li></ul> <h2>International Entity Support</h2> <ul><li>Support local accounting operations and statutory compliance for entities in (but not limited to): United States, Canada, Bahamas, United Kingdom, Japan, Spain, Singapore, India, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and United Arab Emirates (UAE)</li><li>Coordinate with local accounting providers, auditors, and consultants as needed.</li><li>Assist local entities with month-end close activities, reporting requirements, and technical accounting matters.</li><li>Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, IFRS, and applicable local accounting regulations.</li></ul> <h2>Financial Reporting &amp; Compliance</h2> <ul><li>Prepare and review journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and variance analyses.</li><li>Support internal and external audits across global entities.</li><li>Assist with preparation of statutory financial statements and regulatory filings.</li><li>Help maintain and improve internal controls and accounting policies.</li></ul> <h2>Process Improvement</h2> <ul><li>Identify opportunities to streamline and automate international accounting processes.</li><li>Assist with ERP migration and global financial systems optimization.</li><li>Improve consolidation and reporting workflows to support scalability and efficiency.</li></ul> <h2>Cross-Functional Collaboration</h2> <ul><li>Partner with Tax, Treasury, FP&amp;A, Payroll, Legal, and Operations teams on international business initiatives.</li><li>Support global expansion efforts, including new entity setup and operational integration.</li><li>Provide accounting guidance related to international transactions and operational changes.<br></li></ul> </li></ul> <p><strong>Who You Are (Must-Haves):</strong></p><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.</li><li>CPA or equivalent certification preferred.</li><li>8-10+ years of accounting experience with significant international accounting exposure.</li><li>Strong understanding of multi-entity consolidations and intercompany accounting.</li><li>Experience supporting global subsidiaries across multiple jurisdictions.</li><li>Knowledge of U.S. GAAP and/or IFRS.</li><li>Experience with ERP accounting systems.</li><li>Strong Excel and financial reporting skills.</li><li>Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills.</li><li>Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced global environment.<br></li></ul> <p><strong>Who You Might Be</strong> (<strong>Nice-to-Haves): </strong></p><ul><li>Public accounting background preferred.</li><li>Experience in multinational, fintech, SaaS, or high-growth environments.</li><li>Familiarity with statutory reporting requirements across EMEA, APAC, and North America.</li><li>Experience with process automation and accounting system implementations</li></ul> <p><h2>How We Take Care of You:</h2> <ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul> <p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br></em></p><p><a href='https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf'><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em></a></p>

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Business

<h2>Who We Are:</h2><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. 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.</p><p>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.</p><h2>Our Team Members:</h2><p>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!</p><p>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.</p><h2>Your Role:</h2><p>We are looking for a Head of Data to lead Alpaca’s ~15-person data department across Platform Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science. You will own the data strategy, the team’s execution, and the department’s roadmap.</p><p>The Data department serves every function at Alpaca: it powers partner invoicing and revenue attribution, provides the analytical foundation for sales, product, and compliance, and operates the data platform that processes hundreds of millions of events daily. You will manage three team leads, balancing operational delivery (invoicing, embedded analytics, regulatory reporting) with strategic bets (self-service warehouse, AI-powered analytics, enterprise search).</p><p>This is a player-coach role. You will set direction for the team while staying close enough to the technical details to make architecture decisions, unblock your leads, and represent data’s capabilities to the executive team.</p><h2>Things You Get To Do:</h2><ul><li>Lead and develop three sub-teams: Platform Engineering &amp; ETL, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science &amp; Analytics. Manage leads, set priorities, and ensure delivery.</li><li>Own the Data Lakehouse architecture: Trino, Iceberg/GCS, Airflow, Airbyte, Redpanda CDC, dbt. Make build-vs-buy decisions on tooling.</li><li>Drive partner invoicing accuracy and evolution: ensure invoicing logic is versioned, reproducible, and scales with new pricing mechanisms and product launches.</li><li>Deliver embedded analytics: expose warehouse data to partners via BrokerDash, SSR pipelines, and API-based reporting. Own row-level security and entitlements.</li><li>Support product launches with data change management: coordinate data impact analysis for new products (fixed income, global stocks, perps, 24/5 trading) across downstream datasets, dashboards, and reverse ETL.</li><li>Accelerate self-service: move the organization toward self-serve analytics via semantic layers, data catalogues, and conversational BI so the data team can shift from ad-hoc queries to strategic projects.</li><li>Guide AI/ML enablement: oversee enterprise AI search, agent-based workflow automation, and LLM-powered analytics. Help balance vendor solutions with in-house development.</li><li>Collaborate with Finance, Sales, Product, Compliance, and Customer Success to translate business needs into data products.</li><li>Manage infrastructure costs: keep data + cloud cost ratio under target as AUC grows.</li><li>Operate production systems: own on-call processes, incident response, and SLOs for data freshness, accuracy, and availability.</li></ul><h2><strong>Who You Are (Must-Haves):</strong></h2><ul><li>8+ years in data engineering or analytics, including 3+ years managing data teams (leads + ICs).</li><li>Deep experience with modern data stack: dbt, Trino/Presto or equivalent query engines, Apache Iceberg or similar table formats, cloud object storage.</li><li>Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT patterns at scale: CDC (Debezium/Kafka), batch (Airflow/dbt), streaming, and reverse ETL.</li><li>Track record of building self-service analytics capabilities for non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>Experience with financial data: trading, invoicing, revenue attribution, or regulatory reporting in fintech or financial services.</li><li>Proficiency in Python and SQL. Comfortable reading code, reviewing PRs, and making architecture decisions.</li><li>Experience managing distributed/remote teams across multiple time zones.</li><li>Strong stakeholder management: you can translate between executive priorities and engineering execution.</li><li>Experience with GCP (GKE, GCS, BigQuery migration), Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform.</li></ul><p><strong>Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):</strong></p><ul><li>Experience with brokerage or broker-dealer operations (clearing, settlement, market making, reconciliation).</li><li>Familiarity with LLM/AI tooling: MCP, vector databases, enterprise search, conversational BI (WrenAI, Cube).</li><li>Background in compliance analytics (AML/Actimize, KYC, margin calls).</li><li>Exposure to open-source data catalogues (OpenMetadata, Collate) and data quality frameworks.</li></ul><h2>How We Take Care of You:</h2><ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul><p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.</em></p><p>Recruitment Privacy Policy</p>

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<h2>Who We Are:</h2><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. 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.</p><p>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.</p><h2>Our Team Members:</h2><p>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!</p><p>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.</p><h2>Your Role:</h2><p>We are looking for a Head of Data to lead Alpaca’s ~15-person data department across Platform Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science. You will own the data strategy, the team’s execution, and the department’s roadmap.</p><p>The Data department serves every function at Alpaca: it powers partner invoicing and revenue attribution, provides the analytical foundation for sales, product, and compliance, and operates the data platform that processes hundreds of millions of events daily. You will manage three team leads, balancing operational delivery (invoicing, embedded analytics, regulatory reporting) with strategic bets (self-service warehouse, AI-powered analytics, enterprise search).</p><p>This is a player-coach role. You will set direction for the team while staying close enough to the technical details to make architecture decisions, unblock your leads, and represent data’s capabilities to the executive team.</p><h2>Things You Get To Do:</h2><ul><li>Lead and develop three sub-teams: Platform Engineering &amp; ETL, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science &amp; Analytics. Manage leads, set priorities, and ensure delivery.</li><li>Own the Data Lakehouse architecture: Trino, Iceberg/GCS, Airflow, Airbyte, Redpanda CDC, dbt. Make build-vs-buy decisions on tooling.</li><li>Drive partner invoicing accuracy and evolution: ensure invoicing logic is versioned, reproducible, and scales with new pricing mechanisms and product launches.</li><li>Deliver embedded analytics: expose warehouse data to partners via BrokerDash, SSR pipelines, and API-based reporting. Own row-level security and entitlements.</li><li>Support product launches with data change management: coordinate data impact analysis for new products (fixed income, global stocks, perps, 24/5 trading) across downstream datasets, dashboards, and reverse ETL.</li><li>Accelerate self-service: move the organization toward self-serve analytics via semantic layers, data catalogues, and conversational BI so the data team can shift from ad-hoc queries to strategic projects.</li><li>Guide AI/ML enablement: oversee enterprise AI search, agent-based workflow automation, and LLM-powered analytics. Help balance vendor solutions with in-house development.</li><li>Collaborate with Finance, Sales, Product, Compliance, and Customer Success to translate business needs into data products.</li><li>Manage infrastructure costs: keep data + cloud cost ratio under target as AUC grows.</li><li>Operate production systems: own on-call processes, incident response, and SLOs for data freshness, accuracy, and availability.</li></ul><h2>Who You Are (Must-Haves):</h2><ul><li>8+ years in data engineering or analytics, including 3+ years managing data teams (leads + ICs).</li><li>Deep experience with modern data stack: dbt, Trino/Presto or equivalent query engines, Apache Iceberg or similar table formats, cloud object storage.</li><li>Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT patterns at scale: CDC (Debezium/Kafka), batch (Airflow/dbt), streaming, and reverse ETL.</li><li>Track record of building self-service analytics capabilities for non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>Experience with financial data: trading, invoicing, revenue attribution, or regulatory reporting in fintech or financial services.</li><li>Proficiency in Python and SQL. Comfortable reading code, reviewing PRs, and making architecture decisions.</li><li>Experience managing distributed/remote teams across multiple time zones.</li><li>Strong stakeholder management: you can translate between executive priorities and engineering execution.</li><li>Experience with GCP (GKE, GCS, BigQuery migration), Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform.</li></ul><p><strong>Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):</strong></p><ul><li>Experience with brokerage or broker-dealer operations (clearing, settlement, market making, reconciliation).</li><li>Familiarity with LLM/AI tooling: MCP, vector databases, enterprise search, conversational BI (WrenAI, Cube).</li><li>Background in compliance analytics (AML/Actimize, KYC, margin calls).</li><li>Exposure to open-source data catalogues (OpenMetadata, Collate) and data quality frameworks.</li></ul><h2>How We Take Care of You:</h2><ul><li>Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul><p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.</em></p><p>Recruitment Privacy Policy</p>

AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, DC, WV, WI, WY

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