A high-growth, global trading and brokerage platform.

Alpaca, a growing global trading and brokerage platform, is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to lead their data management infrastructure. This role is crucial in designing and scaling data systems that handle hundreds of millions of daily events across financial transactions, customer data, and API logs. The position offers a unique opportunity to shape the company's data infrastructure while working remotely with a collaborative, distributed engineering team. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in data engineering, particularly in building large-scale platforms. The role combines technical expertise in Python, SQL, and modern data tools with the ability to work cross-functionally to deliver business-critical solutions. Benefits include competitive compensation with equity, comprehensive health coverage, and flexible remote work arrangements. This position represents an excellent opportunity for experienced data engineers looking to make a significant impact in the fintech space.

Senior Data Platform Engineer position at Alpaca, building scalable data infrastructure for a global trading platform. Remote role in North America with competitive benefits.

Senior Data Platform Engineer (Remote - North America)

US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer providing brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income trading through institutional-grade APIs.

Alpaca, a leading fintech company with over $170M in funding, is seeking a Production Support Engineer to join their global team of 230+ members. This role is crucial in evolving Alpaca's customer-facing technical support, ensuring scalability and efficiency in service delivery. The position involves hands-on troubleshooting of critical technical issues, improving support processes, and collaborating across teams for root cause analysis. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with distributed systems, APIs, and various technical tools including Kubernetes, GCP, and SQL. This role offers an opportunity to work with a company that serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries, handling over 6 million brokerage accounts. The position comes with competitive compensation, including stock options, health benefits, and monthly stipends for remote work. As part of a diverse, globally distributed team, you'll contribute to Alpaca's mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet while working with cutting-edge financial technology infrastructure.

Senior Production Support Engineer position at Alpaca, focusing on technical support escalations, process improvement, and system troubleshooting for a leading fintech platform.

Production Support Engineer

API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform

Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that's raised over $120 million in funding, providing an API-first stock and crypto platform for developers and businesses worldwide. As a Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer in the Trading team, you'll be at the forefront of building Alpaca's algorithmic trading platform.

The role offers an opportunity similar to joining AWS or Heroku in their early days, where you'll be designing and architecting our platform while wearing multiple hats in our small team. You'll be responsible for writing code and making critical decisions that directly impact customer experience. The position requires deep knowledge of both frontend and backend systems, databases, and distributed systems, along with broad experience from low-level CPU optimization to high-level system architecture.

Our ideal candidate brings previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading). You'll be working with a globally distributed team of 150+ members across the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more.

Key Technical Requirements:
- Expertise in languages like C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python
- Strong background in low latency and high throughput optimization
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, scalability, and high availability
- Proven track record with Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS)

We offer competitive compensation including salary and stock options, comprehensive health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision), home office setup allowance, and monthly stipends. Join us in our mission to provide financial services to everyone on the planet while working with a diverse, globally distributed team backed by prominent investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, and Y Combinator.

The role offers significant growth potential in a fast-paced fintech environment where you'll be building critical infrastructure that powers modern trading systems. If you're passionate about financial technology and want to make a global impact while working with cutting-edge technology, this position offers an excellent opportunity to shape the future of algorithmic trading platforms.

Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer position at Alpaca, focusing on building high-performance trading platforms and systems.

Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer - Trading

US California-based brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer delivering execution and custody solutions for financial assets.

Alpaca, a California-based brokerage infrastructure technology company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Identity team. This role focuses on building and scaling systems that form Alpaca's foundation, specifically the identity verification and risk management platform that serves millions of users trading billions in assets. The position involves working with modern architecture in a globally distributed team of 150+ members across multiple countries.

The Identity team is responsible for creating a cutting-edge platform for user onboarding, identity verification, risk evaluation, and trading account management. As a senior engineer, you'll be instrumental in expanding the platform's capabilities to handle global identity verification and support various account types. The role requires strong expertise in Go programming, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies, particularly Google Cloud Platform.

This is an excellent opportunity for experienced engineers who value quality solutions and have proven experience building at scale. You'll have significant autonomy in designing and implementing solutions while working with a diverse, global team. The position offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and the chance to work on systems that impact millions of users in the financial technology sector.

The company has raised over $170 million in funding and serves hundreds of financial institutions globally. Alpaca's mission is to open financial services to everyone on the planet, and they're looking for candidates who share their values of curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

Senior Software Engineer position at Alpaca, focusing on identity verification and risk management systems for a global financial services platform.

Senior Software Engineer - Identity

Alpaca, a rapidly growing Series B fintech company with over $120M in funding, is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to lead their data transformation initiatives. The company operates as an API-first stock and crypto platform, enabling developers and businesses worldwide to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services.

The role involves leading the vision for the transformation layer of Alpaca's data platform, which processes hundreds of millions of events daily. Working with a globally distributed team of 150+ members, you'll be responsible for integrating data from various sources including transactional databases, API logs, CRMs, payment systems, and marketing platforms.

The position offers a unique opportunity to work with open-source solutions on Google Cloud Platform, utilizing dbt and Trino query engine to build data models. You'll collaborate with Data Engineers and Data Scientists while serving stakeholders across finance, operations, customer success, and the executive team.

Key technical aspects include working with Python, SQL, and various data transformation tools. The role requires expertise in building scalable transformation layers, CI/CD practices, and cloud environments. You'll be instrumental in ensuring data quality, maintaining development standards, and creating efficient data delivery systems.

Benefits include competitive compensation, comprehensive health coverage, stock options, home office setup allowance, and monthly stipends. This is a remote position, offering the flexibility to work from anywhere while being part of an innovative, fast-growing fintech company backed by prominent investors like Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, and Y Combinator.

Senior Analytics Engineer position at Alpaca, leading data transformation initiatives for a fintech platform processing millions of daily events. Remote role with competitive benefits.

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A high-growth, global trading and brokerage platform.