Alpaca

Own and lead the architecture and design of high-performance trading infrastructure, focusing on low-latency, scalability, and resilience. | Extensive experience (10+ years) in high-frequency trading or fintech systems, with expertise in Go, C++, or Java, and a deep understanding of operating systems, networking, and distributed systems. | Who We Are: 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. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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. Your Role: We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our Risk and Margin Team. This is a high-impact technical role for someone who wants to remain deeply hands-on while shaping the architecture of our trading infrastructure. You will be the technical authority on low-latency systems, responsible for pushing the boundaries of performance, determinism, and scale across order routing, execution, and market connectivity. You will not manage people directly — instead, you will lead through technical expertise, code quality, and design influence, mentoring others while continuing to be a principal contributor to mission-critical systems. Key Responsibilities • Own the architecture, design, and technical roadmap of the risk and margin platform. • Lead initiatives on low-latency optimizations, deterministic performance, and resiliency. • Guide integration with exchanges and liquidity venues (FIX, OUCH, ITCH, proprietary APIs) at scale. • Establish best practices for high-frequency trading system development (testing, monitoring, incident response). • Partner with risk and compliance teams to embed real-time pre-trade risk, credit, and margin controls. • Act as a multiplier: mentor engineers, perform design reviews, and elevate engineering standards. • Lead architecture discussions and long-term system design for scalability and resilience. • Drive cross-team projects that impact multiple trading desks (e.g., global order routing, fault-tolerant market data infra). • Proactively identify scalability bottlenecks and lead refactoring/redesign initiatives. • Serve as a technical point of escalation for production trading issues. Qualifications • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent. • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in trading, fintech, or distributed systems. • Deep expertise in Go, C++, or Java, with a track record of building low-latency, high-throughput systems. • Strong foundation in operating systems internals, networking, and concurrency. • Demonstrated experience with architecture & system design for trading systems. • Strong knowledge of messaging, storage, and distributed computation frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, Aerospike). • Experience leading large-scale migrations/refactors in production-critical environments. • Proven track record of mentorship and technical leadership across multiple teams. Preferred Skills • Experience with equities, derivatives, or FX trading systems. • Knowledge of cloud, containerization, and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker). • Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK). • Contributions to open-source projects in systems programming or infrastructure. • Experience scaling engineering orgs and setting technical strategy. How We Take Care of You: • 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 Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy

Design, implement, and maintain frontend applications and user experiences for Trading API customers, collaborating across teams and mentoring peers. | 5+ years frontend development with TypeScript and React, proficiency in HTML and CSS frameworks like TailwindCSS, strong communication, and experience with REST APIs and WebSockets. | Your Role: As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining frontend applications that form the foundation of user experience at Alpaca and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets. As part of the Trading API team, you will be responsible for the user experience and product development for Trading API customers, encompassing both the frontend trading dashboards and backend systems that power Trading API product features like elite, high-yield cash, paper accounts, and more. Working closely with our users and internal stakeholders, we specialize in delivering high-quality end-to-end solutions across the full suite of frontend and backend systems at Alpaca. We’re looking for someone who brings deep frontend expertise, enjoys mentoring others, and thrives in a culture of curiosity and continuous improvement. Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team with a keen attention to detail, you’ll build elegant and seamless user experiences with a focus on polish, performance, responsiveness, and accessibility. Things You Get To Do: • Play a pivotal role in architecting and developing web applications that push the boundaries of technology • Work closely with cross-functional teams to create responsive, performant, and intuitive user interfaces that delight our customers • Own the delivery of high-visibility features/projects, from design to deployment • Design shared component libraries and contribute to design systems • Mentor peers and influence the technical strategy of our company Who You Are (Must-Haves): • 5+ years of experience in frontend development with TypeScript/React • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Ability to translate product mockups and designs into fully realized user interfaces • Proficient in TypeScript and React • Proficient in HTML and CSS frameworks such as TailwindCSS • Passionate about creating intuitive and performance user interfaces • Experience with REST APIs and WebSockets best practices • Track record of setting or influencing frontend best practices • Attention to detail and an appreciation for design aesthetics Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): • Algo trading experience (either professional or personal) • Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP) • Experience or understanding of financial markets • Experience working at a startup • Experience working remotely

Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient microservices and data processing systems for financial compliance using Golang and related technologies. | 5+ years of experience in large-scale systems, expertise in Golang, distributed architecture, API design, and experience with modern observability and cloud infrastructure. | Who We Are: 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 C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 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 6 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. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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. Your Role: As a Senior Software Engineer on the Tax Platform Engineering team, you will architect, build, and scale the mission-critical systems that ensure accuracy, verifiability, and compliance for our global tax obligations. You will be responsible for engineering the durable systems of record that serve as the definitive source of truth for our financial operations, directly mitigating financial risk and ensuring auditable adherence to complex financial laws in a high-volume, regulated environment Key Responsibilities: • Design, build, and operate highly scalable, resilient, and secure microservices and data processing systems using idiomatic Golang. • Model complex, long-running tax reporting business logic as durable, stateful workflows using Temporal to ensure correctness and reliability. • Implement and optimize data pipelines consuming financial events from Redpanda, ensuring data quality, timeliness, and integrity. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams of tax analysts, legal experts, and product managers to translate complex and evolving regulatory requirements into robust, maintainable, and verifiable software solutions. • Provide technical leadership and mentorship, driving best practices in distributed system design, API definition with gRPC, code quality, and advanced testing strategies. • Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first-class concern to ensure transparency for our auditors and regulators. • Own the full lifecycle of your services, including automated deployment (CI/CD with tools like Jenkins and Terraform), proactive monitoring, and incident response, following a "you build it, you run it" philosophy. Technical Environment: • Backend Services: Microservices written in Golang for performance, simplicity, and concurrency. • API Communication: gRPC with Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) for high-performance, strongly-typed, and versionable service-to-service APIs. • Workflow Orchestration: Temporal for durable execution of long-running, auditable business logic workflows. • Streaming Data: Redpanda as a high-throughput, low-latency, Kafka-compatible streaming platform for all tax-relevant financial events. • Infrastructure: Cloud platforms (AWS), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). • Observability: Modern monitoring and observability tools include Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog. Must-Haves: • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems in production. • Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library. • Demonstrable experience in designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including a strong understanding of microservices architecture and API design patterns (e.g., REST, gRPC). • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex requirements into clear technical components and excellent communication skills for working in a cross-functional environment. Nice-to-Haves: • Hands-on experience with Temporal or similar durable execution systems like Cadence or AWS Step Functions. • Experience with Redpanda or Apache Kafka, with a solid understanding of the Kafka protocol. • Production experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf). • Proficiency with AWS, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins). • Experience with modern observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing systems. • Prior experience in FinTech, RegTech, or another highly regulated industry with familiarity with financial data or compliance systems. How We Take Care of You: • 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 Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy

Provide IT helpdesk support, manage onboarding/offboarding, deploy and secure hardware and software, maintain IT asset inventory, and assist with change management in a fully remote environment. | 3+ years IT support experience, knowledge of cloud and on-prem LAN/WAN environments, strong problem-solving and communication skills, and availability for on-call rotations. | Who We Are: 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 C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 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 6 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. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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. Your Role: We are seeking an experienced IT Support Specialist to help support our team members with IT-related tasks and help ensure the Security of our organization. The IT Team is 100% distributed and remote. This role will report directly to the IT Support Lead. Things You Get To Do: • Be the “Go-to-Person- for IT helpdesk requests • Diagnose and provide IT support for staff as required • Work with the HR and Security team to manage onboarding and offboarding activities • Set up and deploy laptops, devices, software, and other hardware • Assist with shipping and receiving of hardware assets • Manage MDM system, including BYOD • Maintain the firm's inventory of all IT assets • Manage and secure endpoint devices at the direction of the Security Team • Provide training to staff on IT-related topics • Assist with change management and procurement activities • Other related duties as required Who You Are (Must-Haves): • Excited about Alpaca’s mission and what we’re building • 3+ years of experience in an IT support or helpdesk role • Experience with cloud-centric environments and cybersecurity capabilities • Experience with traditional on-prem LAN/WAN environments • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Excellent communication skills, fluent in English (both written and verbal), and committed to working collaboratively across the Firm • Available for on-call rotations and after-hours responses as needed Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related field • IT or Security related certifications • Understanding of financial and privacy regulations • Experience in the financial services industry • Business acumen to be able to balance tradeoffs between stakeholders and technology feasibility and budget constraints How We Take Care of You: • 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 Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy

Provide IT helpdesk support, manage onboarding/offboarding, deploy and secure hardware and software, maintain IT asset inventory, and assist with training and procurement. | 3+ years IT support experience, cloud and cybersecurity knowledge, LAN/WAN experience, strong problem-solving and communication skills, and availability for on-call rotations. | Your Role: We are seeking an experienced IT Support Specialist to help support our team members with IT-related tasks and help ensure the Security of our organization. The IT Team is 100% distributed and remote. This role will report directly to the IT Support Lead. Things You Get To Do: • Be the “Go-to-Person- for IT helpdesk requests • Diagnose and provide IT support for staff as required • Work with the HR and Security team to manage onboarding and offboarding activities • Set up and deploy laptops, devices, software, and other hardware • Assist with shipping and receiving of hardware assets • Manage MDM system, including BYOD • Maintain the firm's inventory of all IT assets • Manage and secure endpoint devices at the direction of the Security Team • Provide training to staff on IT-related topics • Assist with change management and procurement activities • Other related duties as required Who You Are (Must-Haves): • Excited about Alpaca’s mission and what we’re building • 3+ years of experience in an IT support or helpdesk role • Experience with cloud-centric environments and cybersecurity capabilities • Experience with traditional on-prem LAN/WAN environments • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Excellent communication skills, fluent in English (both written and verbal), and committed to working collaboratively across the Firm • Available for on-call rotations and after-hours responses as needed Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related field • IT or Security related certifications • Understanding of financial and privacy regulations • Experience in the financial services industry • Business acumen to be able to balance tradeoffs between stakeholders and technology feasibility and budget constraints

Lead and manage outbound sales pipeline generation and BDR team for Broker API business, including multi-channel campaigns and strategic collaboration. | 4+ years sales experience with at least 1 year managing BDRs, proven success in outbound sales, fintech or financial infrastructure experience preferred. | Who We Are: 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 C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 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 6 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. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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. Your Role: We are seeking a Business Development Manager to lead outbound pipeline generation for our Broker API business. This is a player-coach role: you will directly prospect into target accounts while building and managing a global BDR function. The BDM will craft and execute our outbound sales function, encompassing email, cold calling, in-person engagement, events, and strategic gifting. This role will be accountable for building a repeatable, high-quality outbound engine that drives a meaningful revenue pipeline. Things You Get To Do: Outbound Leadership:Build and execute multi-channel outbound campaigns (calls, LinkedIn, events, emails, targeted ads). Source high-value deals directly globally while coaching BDRs. Deploy the outbound strategy for the Broke API business line. Team Management:Manage daily execution of BDRs; institute team rituals (standups, reviews, training). Ramp, train, and coach BDRs on new playbooks, scripts, and strategies. Review individual performance and set clear KPIs for meetings, opportunities, and pipeline creation. Pipeline Generation: Partner with AEs to ensure smooth lead handoff and pipeline conversion. Build dashboards to track outbound performance, ROI, and payback. Strategic Contribution: Collaborate with Marketing to run logo-specific campaigns and leverage content engagement signals. Develop the Outbound Playbook as a living process document (scripts, workflows, best practices). Who You Are (Must-Haves): • 4+ years of sales experience with at least 1 year in a BDR Manager or Team Lead role. Demonstrated success in building and managing outbound functions (player/coach model). • Strong track record of sourcing high-value, upmarket B2B deals. • Comfort with outbound beyond email: cold-calling, in-person events, gifting, ABM. • Data-driven approach: ability to analyze conversion rates, ROI, and pipeline attribution. • Experience in fintech, broker/dealer, API-first SaaS, or financial infrastructure preferred. Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): • Understanding of the brokerage and financial services industries. • FINRA Series 7. How We Take Care of You: • 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 Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy

Design, implement, and maintain scalable internal tools and systems for Alpaca's operations teams, collaborating cross-functionally and owning high-impact projects. | 5+ years full-stack development with Golang and TypeScript/React, strong communication, SQL experience, and proficiency in modern UI frameworks. | Who We Are: 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 C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 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 6 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. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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. Your Role: As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets. The Internal Tools Team is responsible for building and maintaining user-facing tools that empower Alpaca's internal operations teams. Our focus is on streamlining workflows at scale through intuitive self-serve interfaces and automation. We work closely with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that improve efficiency, reduce manual overhead, and enable teams to operate with greater autonomy. For this role, we seek an experienced Senior Fullstack engineer dedicated to delivering seamless and high-quality software solutions for our internal operations teams. 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 actively contributing to the goal-setting process alongside a collaborative, cross-functional team. Things You Get To Do: • Own projects that push the boundaries of Alpaca's internal tools and systems. • Work across domains to build features end to end, gaining exposure to the full spectrum of Alpaca's infrastructure. • Stay deeply connected to the needs of internal operations teams, building tools that streamline workflows and reduce manual effort. • Drive architectural design conversations, helping shape scalable, intuitive, and reliable systems. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions. • Play a key role in improving our response times and helping internal teams provide world-class customer support. • Work directly with stakeholders, maintain relationships, and implement solutions that have a direct impact on Alpaca operations. • Take ownership of high-visibility, high-impact initiatives with autonomy and accountability. Who You Are (Must-Haves): • 5+ years of experience in full-stack development with Golang & TypeScript/React. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills. • Ability to collect and translate stakeholder requirements into fully realized features. • Proficient in TypeScript and React. • Proficient in HTML and CSS frameworks such as TailwindCSS. • Proficient in at least one modern systems programming language like Golang or C#. • Passionate about creating intuitive and performant user interfaces. • Experience with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL. • Experience with REST APIs and best practices. • Attention to detail and an appreciation for design aesthetics. Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): • Algo trading experience (either professional or personal). • Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP). • Experience or understanding of financial markets. • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. • Experience working at a startup. • Experience working remotely. How We Take Care of You: • 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 Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy

Design, implement, and maintain scalable brokerage systems and services, lead regional recruitment and projects, mentor engineers, and ensure operational reliability. | Proven experience with complex financial systems including accounting principles, multi-currency transactions, regulatory compliance, proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, and strong communication in a global remote team. | Who We Are: Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges. Alpaca’s globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are also deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our award-winning developer-friendly API and the infrastructure behind it. Our Team Members: We’re a team of 150+ globally distributed members who love working from our favorite places worldwide. Our team spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and more! We’re looking for candidates eager to join Alpaca’s growing organization, who are excited about our Mission of “Open financial services to everyone on the planet and share our Values of “Stay Curious,” “Have Empathy,” and “Be Accountable.” Your Role: 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, leading cross-functional team projects, mentoring talent with respect to our engineering principles and practices, and fostering Alpaca culture in the region. As the lead, you will also ensure operational reliability engineering and incident commander during regional business hours to ensure proactive 24x7 stability. For this role, we are seeking an experienced full-stack engineer who is dedicated to delivering seamless and high-quality 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 actively contributing to the goal-setting process alongside a collaborative, cross-functional team. Things You Get To Do: • Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system. • Develop and enhance the middle and back office systems, including gRPC micro services, React-based UI for internal administration and API developers, and third-party vendor integrations. • Work closely with Alpaca’s core teams to enhance and transform the core framework, enabling support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets. • 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. • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance. • Thrive in a global environment, effectively navigating regulatory requirements and building scalable solutions to support Alpaca’s international growth. • You may be asked to be on-call to assist with timely engineering projects. Who You Are (Must-Haves): • Proven experience in designing and developing complex financial systems, preferably including double-entry accounting. • Strong understanding of accounting principles, ledger structures, and transaction reconciliation. • Experience in building scalable, high-availability financial applications that handle multi-currency transactions. • Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets. • Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures. • Experience working with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes. • Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with global teams, local regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders. • Strong computer science fundamentals and proven software engineering architecture experience • Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed team, and under pressure in a fast-paced environment. • Strategic thinking and the ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies. • Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven design. • Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset. • Ability to act as incident commander and lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority. Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): • Experience in the financial service sector. • Experience working in a startup or fast-growing technology company. • Knowledge of emerging technologies. • Experience or passion for financial markets. • Experience managing vendors and organizational budgeting. • Experience working with global teams. How We Take Care of You: • Competitive Salary & Stock Options • Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. In Japan, you are offered local benefits. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs. • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card • Work with awesome hard-working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world Alpaca is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable internal tools and systems to empower Alpaca’s internal operations teams with seamless software solutions. | 5+ years full-stack development experience with Golang and TypeScript/React, proficiency in HTML, CSS frameworks like TailwindCSS, SQL databases, REST APIs, and strong communication skills. | Who We Are: 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 C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 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 6 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. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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. Your Role: As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets. The Internal Tools Team is responsible for building and maintaining user-facing tools that empower Alpaca’s internal operations teams. Our focus is on streamlining workflows at scale through intuitive self-serve interfaces and automation. We work closely with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that improve efficiency, reduce manual overhead, and enable teams to operate with greater autonomy. For this role, we seek an experienced Senior Fullstack engineer dedicated to delivering seamless and high-quality software solutions for our internal operations teams. 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 actively contributing to the goal-setting process alongside a collaborative, cross-functional team. Things You Get To Do: • Own projects that push the boundaries of Alpaca’s internal tools and systems. • Work across domains to build features end-to-end, gaining exposure to the full spectrum of Alpaca’s infrastructure. • Stay deeply connected to the needs of internal operations teams, building tools that streamline workflows and reduce manual effort. • Drive architectural design conversations, helping shape scalable, intuitive, and reliable systems. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions. • Play a key role in improving our response times and helping internal teams provide world-class customer support. • Work directly with stakeholders, maintain relationships, and implement solutions that have a direct impact on Alpaca operations. • Take ownership of high-visibility, high-impact initiatives with autonomy and accountability. Who You Are (Must-Haves): • 5+ years of experience in full-stack development with Golang TypeScript/React. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills. • Ability to collect and translate stakeholder requirements into fully realized features. • Proficient in TypeScript and React. • Proficient in HTML and CSS frameworks such as TailwindCSS. • Proficient in at least one modern systems programming language like Golang or C#. • Passionate about creating intuitive and performant user interfaces. • Experience with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL. • Experience with REST APIs and best practices. • Attention to detail and an appreciation for design aesthetics. Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): • Algo trading experience (either professional or personal). • Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP). • Experience or understanding of financial markets. • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. • Experience working at a startup. • Experience working remotely. How We Take Care of You: • 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 Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy

Lead financial planning, analysis, reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis to support strategic decisions in a fast-growing fintech brokerage. | 5+ years finance experience with financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, advanced Excel and data analysis skills, preferably in fintech or brokerage, plus strong communication and problem-solving abilities. | Who We Are: 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 C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 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 6 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. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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. Your Role: Our finance team at Alpaca is seeking an FP&A Manager to lead financial planning, analysis, and reporting for our fast-growing and innovative API-driven trading brokerage. In this role, you'll manage budgeting, forecasting, and performance insights to drive strategic decisions, collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced fintech environment. Reporting to the Finance Director, you'll support a range of key processes including financial forecasting and budgeting, monthly/quarterly closes, data analysis and growth modeling, and investor communications. Things You Get To Do: • Forecasting and Budgeting: Maintain complex forecasting models and oversee the quarterly/annual budgeting process, incorporating key metrics from API integrations, trading activities, and various other economic indicators. • Financial Modelling: Build and update financial models to support scenario planning, initiative assessments, cash flow forecasting, and investment evaluations to support a range of forecasting and strategic planning for the company. • Financial Closing: Assist with and ultimately lead the monthly/quarterly financial closing processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness and delivering key insights to management. • Reporting: Prepare monthly/quarterly reports for internal management updates, team presentations, and external stakeholders including investor communications, quarterly board meetings, marketing or fundraising materials, etc. • Variance Analysis: Perform variance analysis on financials and key business metrics, using internal models and data dashboards to track and analyze performance. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams on budgeting, resource allocation, and hiring processes. • Ad-Hoc Projects: Handle ad-hoc requests, projects, and special analyses, such as product profitability assessments or risk evaluations. Who You Are (Must-Haves): • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. • 5+ years in finance, with experience in financial modeling, forecasting/budgeting, and data analysis ideally in the fintech or brokerage space. • Advanced skills in Excel, G-Suite, SQL, Python, or similar systems/applications. • Very strong analytical abilities for variance analysis, scenario modeling, and metric tracking in a dynamic business. • Excellent communication for reports, presentations, and cross-team collaboration. • Exceptional problem-solving with a curious and strategic mindset and high attention to detail. • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth remote setting and adapt to evolving industry regulations. Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): • CFA, MBA, or advanced finance certification. • Experience in the fintech sector, particularly with analyzing revenues generated by trading platforms, recurring subscriptions, and brokerage services. • Team leadership or cross-functional project management in tech environments. • Knowledge of statistical/machine learning tools for advanced forecasting. • Previous experience at both large companies and start-ups. • Passion for investing, trading innovations, and financial markets or the desire to learn. How We Take Care of You: • 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 Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy