Alpaca

Full-stack Engineer

• Build Alpaca's algo trading platform to satisfy users expectations
• Design and architect the platform by wearing different hats in a small team
• Write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our customers
• Requires deep knowledge in frontend and backend, databases and distributed systems
• Experience from low to high level in CPU-level hardware for high throughput, robust concurrency system design
• Object-oriented data modeling with long term growth in mind
• Join an early stage startup with highly demanding environment and significant payoff

Senior Software Engineer

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Identify and execute borrow and loan opportunities across various asset classes (equities, fixed income, ETFs) using both manual and automated trading strategies.
• Leverage Python and SQL to streamline daily tasks, develop analytical tools, and automate data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to optimize data pipelines, trading systems, operational efficiency and risk controls.
• Monitor outstanding loans, recalls, and rates to optimize risk and profitability.
• Build relationships with borrowers, lenders, custodians, and firm client partners.
• Develop and perform operational tasks, product improvements, and automation tools for optimizing costs, revenue and workflow.
• Assess and manage counterparty, credit, and market risk while staying informed of market developments and regulatory changes.
• Work with existing and new securities lending vendors on product development solutions.
• Contribute to creating automated workflow solutions for securities lending trading and operations.

Securities Finance Trader

Financial Crime

• Join Alpaca Securities’ dynamic and fully remote Compliance team dedicated to safeguarding the integrity of the financial markets.
• Collaborate with the AMLCO to implement and refine investigative procedures cross CIP/KYC, AML, Anti-Fraud, and Securities Fraud Monitoring initiatives.
• 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.
• Prepare, document, and file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in compliance with FinCEN requirements and internal policies.
• Review and respond to sanctions screening alerts, FinCEN 314(a) and 314(b) requests, and other regulatory inquiries.
• Maintain and continuously update firm-wide risk assessments covering BSA/AML, sanctions, fraud, and securities surveillance programs.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and assist during external audits, examinations, and regulatory engagements.
• Provide guidance and support across various business units, including trading, operations, and customer support, to ensure alignment with compliance protocols.
• 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.
• Support the development and refinement of policies, procedures, monitoring controls, and compliance reporting mechanisms.
• Lead and contribute to special projects, compile investigative findings, and prepare reports for management, regulators, and auditors.

Trade Surveillance Analyst 1 – Financial Crimes

• Join Alpaca Securities’ dynamic and fully remote Compliance team dedicated to safeguarding the integrity of the financial markets.
• Play a critical part in supporting the firm’s BSA/AML, Anti-Fraud, and Securities Fraud Monitoring programs.
• Lead and support investigations, ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, and help build a scalable and risk-based compliance infrastructure.

Senior Fraud Analyst – Fraud Investigations, Financial Crimes Monitoring

QA Engineer

• Build and own frameworks, tooling, and CI/CD infrastructure for Alpaca’s engineers.
• Write Go, design automated test frameworks, and work with application code and Kubernetes.
• Redefine how AI is used to enhance quality and automate testing coverage.
• Design and build automated test frameworks across REST and gRPC API.
• Accelerate test generation using AI and LLM-based tooling.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build.
• Conduct load, stress, and scalability tests to ensure platform demand handling.
• Introduce chaos engineering practices for resilience experiments.
• Standardize tooling and infrastructure for improved developer experience.
• Collaborate with teams to raise test coverage, reliability, and speed.
• Mentor product engineers to promote a culture of quality and improvement.

Senior Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

• Your job is to build Alpaca's algo trading platform to satisfy our users who expect high quality and performance from their brokerage service.
• This opportunity is similar to joining AWS or Heroku in their early days, designing and architecting our platform by wearing many different hats in our small team.
• As an experienced engineer, you will write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our customers.
• This certainly requires 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.

Senior Software Engineer – Trading

Associate

• Own the end-to-end global equity settlement process, partnering with our custodian, counterparties, and internal stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate settlement across multiple international markets.
• Ensure transactions are accurately recorded across internal and external systems to facilitate successful settlement.
• Monitor daily settlement activity and proactively identify transactions at risk of failing.
• Investigate and resolve settlement exceptions, trade discrepancies, and failing transactions.
• Review buy-ins, settlement penalties, and aged fails while coordinating remediation efforts with counterparties and our custodian.
• Monitor trade matching through SWIFT and settlement platforms, ensuring counterparties affirm and match trades within required market deadlines.
• Investigate and resolve trade mismatches, including:
• Settlement instruction discrepancies
• Quantity and price differences
• Allocation issues
• Counterparty booking errors
• FX and market-specific settlement exceptions
• Partner closely with trading, finance, compliance, counterparties, and custodians to drive timely resolution of settlement issues.
• Escalate complex settlement discrepancies and operational risks to the Director of Brokerage Operations when appropriate.
• Perform daily reconciliations of securities positions and cash balances across multiple global markets and currencies.
• Investigate and resolve cash and stock reconciliation breaks between internal ledgers and external custodians.
• Produce reconciliation reports identifying money differences, position discrepancies, and operational exceptions.
• Ensure all reconciliation breaks are researched, documented, and resolved within established service levels.
• Ensure operational processes comply with applicable SEC, FINRA, and global market regulations.
• Support compliance with SEC Rule 15c3-3 by helping maintain proper possession and control of customer securities.
• Identify operational risks and escalate issues that may impact clients, settlement, or regulatory obligations.
• Maintain complete and organized operational records supporting audits, examinations, and regulatory reviews.
• Assist the Director of Brokerage Operations with Internal Audit requests, regulatory examinations, and remediation efforts.
• Produce timely, accurate, and meaningful operational reporting on settlement activity, aged fails, reconciliation breaks, and operational metrics.
• Prepare work papers, operational summaries, root cause analyses, and management reporting.
• Identify recurring operational issues through trend analysis and recommend improvements that reduce risk and increase efficiency.
• Update operational procedures, controls, and documentation as business processes evolve.
• Support the implementation of policy frameworks while serving as a resource for operational policy questions.
• Partner with Engineering and Product teams to automate manual operational workflows and improve settlement processes.
• Leverage SQL, Metabase, AI tools (such as Cursor and ChatGPT), and reporting platforms to enhance operational efficiency and analytics.
• Participate in cross-functional projects supporting new products, international market expansion, and operational scalability.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the client experience while reducing operational risk.
• Work cross-functionally with Brokerage Operations, Trading, Finance, Compliance, Engineering, and Customer Operations to ensure seamless post-trade processing.
• Foster an environment of teamwork, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Support department initiatives and perform additional responsibilities as business needs evolve.

Settlements Associate

Crypto

• Own the strategy, growth, and operational performance of Alpaca's global crypto exchange business
• Lead expansion across B2C and B2B2C offerings, drive licensing, product, and commercial initiatives, and partner cross-functionally to build a scalable, compliant, and market-leading platform
• Grow our spot crypto business, including B2C crypto trading and B2B2C Crypto-as-a-Service
• Build and execute license strategies
• Ensure a flawless compliance record
• Oversee audits, both financial and regulatory
• Prospect and decide what new features to add to make our crypto offering competitive
• Improve the UI/UX for the direct consumer business (Trading API)
• Manage critical contracts with key vendors

Head of Business, Crypto Exchanges

Product Manager

• Own one core trading sub-surface end-to-end (a new asset class or an ancillary trading product) - drive prioritization, API design, and rollout inside your surface.
• Run discovery with partners and prospects against real integration constraints, translate findings into a sequenced backlog for your surface, and push back on requests that don’t fit the platform without over-promising.
• Ship to production at the cadence of a high-growth platform - write clear PRDs, align with engineering on API contracts, and produce documentation partners can implement against.
• Partner with compliance, legal, and market-structure / execution teams on product decisions that touch licensing, trading rules, best execution, and venue connectivity - comfortable shipping in parallel with them in a regulated environment.
• Improve operational efficiency in your surface - exception handling, partner-facing tooling, automation of repetitive ops - and own the metrics.
• Track adoption beyond GA - trading volume, order success rate, partner activation, partner-reported blockers - and iterate on docs, SDK ergonomics, and rollout sequencing until your surface is actually being adopted.
• Report timely and accurately on product status and results to internal and external stakeholders, including partners.

Product Manager, New Assets

DevOps Engineer

• Design and evolve 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.
• Build and own 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.
• Advance 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.
• Strengthen 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.
• Operate our GKE clusters and the infrastructure services that run on them - Helm-packaged workloads, message brokers (RabbitMQ, IBM MQ) and data stores.
• Participate 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.
• Embed SRE practices - SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, capacity planning - into how Core Infrastructure builds and operates, working closely with our SRE function.

Senior DevOps Engineer

• 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 that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets daily.
• The payments team is responsible for building and maintaining a modern global payments and treasury platform. Operating in an industry in which money movement is a critical component, we adopt a modern technology focused approach with highly scalable, event-driven systems.
• We have ambitious plans to build a seamlessly integrated comprehensive treasury platform into an industry leading end-to-end financial infrastructure on a global scale.

Senior Software Engineer – Payments, Treasury

Operations

• Primary owner and processor for distributions (dividends, interest, etc), reorganizations (reverse splits, mergers, etc.), and redemptions (maturities, calls, etc).
• Review and validate corporate action event details with rigorous attention to accuracy before posting to customer accounts, minimizing risk of errors and potential firm exposure.
• Interface daily with external vendors and custodians (DTC, OCC, BNY, ICE) to confirm accuracy of event and allocation details.
• Balance and reconcile all corporate actions booked versus the corresponding suspense and wash accounts. Ensure the corporate action house accounts are balanced daily.
• Research breaks and open items to ensure they do not become aged.
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for corporate actions for internal departments and external partners.
• Respond to corporate action related Zendesk tickets and handle voluntary corporate action requests.
• Enhance and iterate on procedures to incorporate new tasks, asset classes, and other processes.
• Assist on automation of daily self-clearing processes collaborating with engineering
• Stay curious! Learn other areas in the clearing space to assist in downtime.

Clearing Operations Associate – Corporate Actions

• Handling customer securities account opening, including anti-social force screening and due diligence.
• Ongoing customer account management.
• Managing and executing securities operations, including settlement, funding, withdrawals, and balance reconciliation.
• Provide feedback and support to the product development team based on domain knowledge of U.S. and Japanese equity back-office processes.
• Provide input on processes related to settlement, foreign exchange, and custody.
• Validate specifications and accuracy of statutory reporting documents.
• Review and verify customer tax-related requirements.
• Provide input regarding requirements for off-ledger bookkeeping and client ledger structure.

Broker-Dealer Operations Specialist, Japanese Language Required

Account Executive

• Own the full sales cycle from outbound prospecting through contract negotiation and close
• Build and manage a healthy pipeline through outbound outreach, referrals, conferences, strategic partnerships, networking, and inbound opportunities
• Drive new revenue growth for Alpaca's institutional Broker API business across the United States
• Develop relationships with key decision makers at fintechs, broker-dealers, RIAs, wealth managers, banks, and other financial institutions
• Understand each prospect's business objectives and technical requirements to position Alpaca's solutions effectively
• Deliver compelling product demonstrations, business presentations, and commercial proposals
• Collaborate closely with Solutions Engineering, Product, Integrations, Marketing, Customer Success, and Legal to move opportunities efficiently through the sales process
• Maintain accurate pipeline data, forecasts, and account activity within Salesforce (or CRM)
• Continuously refine sales messaging based on market feedback, customer insights, and competitive intelligence
• Represent Alpaca at industry conferences, customer meetings, and networking events

Sales Engineer

• Serve as the product and technical subject matter expert.
• Collaborate closely with the Sales and Customer Success teams.
• Present compelling product and technical use cases to prospective clients.
• Create sales support materials and documentation for new features and products.
• Own technical sales engagement end-to-end.