San Mateo, California
Developer-first API for stock, options, crypto trading
Alpaca provides brokerage infrastructure APIs enabling developers and businesses to build trading apps, embed investing services, and automate strategies across stocks, options, ETFs, fixed income, and crypto. It serves global fintechs, institutions, hedge funds, and retail investors, powering millions of accounts in over 40 countries. This democratizes access to financial markets through scalable, compliant technology.
Build and operate scalable brokerage systems spanning backend services, internal React applications, and financial integrations. The role requires senior-level architecture experience, Go or similar backend expertise, event-driven design, incident leadership, and strong collaboration across global teams.
Builds and operates full-stack automations and UIs that replace manual brokerage operations workflows with durable, auditable systems. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Golang expertise, and end-to-end TypeScript/React development experience.
Design and operate scalable brokerage systems spanning backend services, React interfaces, vendor integrations, and multi-market infrastructure. The role requires senior full-stack engineering experience, strong architecture and incident leadership skills, and familiarity with event-driven systems; financial-services experience is advantageous.
Operates and improves reliability for a trading-critical brokerage platform across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, messaging, and PostgreSQL. Requires 4+ years of production operations experience, strong PostgreSQL fundamentals, incident response expertise, and proficiency in Go or Python.
Supports enterprise brokerage clients with order entry, execution, FIX sessions, account issues, and trading activity monitoring. The role requires brokerage or trading experience, customer relationship skills, familiarity with equities and FIX protocol, and relevant FINRA licensing.
Owns the analytics transformation layer by building scalable dbt and SQL data models, improving warehouse performance, and establishing data quality standards. Requires 4+ years in analytics or data engineering, strong Python and semantic-layer experience, and proficiency with cloud and data tooling.
Senior Fullstack Engineer embedded in brokerage operations to replace manual processes with durable automations and tooling. Requires 5+ years experience building and operating large-scale systems with deep Golang and TypeScript/React expertise.
Cyber & AI Risk Analyst supporting cybersecurity risk assessments, AI governance controls, and compliance for a fintech brokerage platform. Requires foundational cyber knowledge, understanding of AI risks, and strong communication skills; 1+ years experience preferred but internships welcome.
Build and architect Alpaca's algorithmic trading platform, focusing on high-performance, low-latency systems for OMS, RMS, and exchange infrastructure. Requires deep full-stack experience with trading systems, concurrency, distributed architectures, and languages from C/C++ to Python.
Securities Finance Trader responsible for identifying and executing borrow/loan opportunities across equities, fixed income and ETFs using manual and automated strategies. Requires bachelor's in quantitative field, 0-2 years experience, proficiency in Python and SQL, and strong analytical skills.
Lead investigations into securities fraud, AML, and financial crimes for a brokerage firm. Conduct in-depth analysis, file SARs, maintain risk assessments, ensure regulatory compliance with BSA/AML, SEC/FINRA, and support audits. Requires 1-3 years in financial crime investigations and strong regulatory knowledge.
Conduct investigations into financial crimes, securities fraud, and suspicious trading activity for a brokerage firm. Prepare SARs, maintain risk assessments, ensure regulatory compliance with BSA/AML, SEC/FINRA, and support audits while collaborating across business units.
Senior Software Engineer building automated test frameworks, CI/CD infrastructure, and AI-powered quality tools in Go and Kubernetes for a global fintech API platform. Requires 5+ years production software engineering experience, strong Go and Kubernetes skills, and experience with LLM tools for testing.
Build and architect Alpaca's algorithmic trading platform, focusing on high-performance, low-latency systems for OMS, RMS, and exchange integrations. Requires deep experience with trading systems and expertise across languages from C/C++ to Python, distributed systems, and concurrency.
Own end-to-end global equity settlement, trade exception management, cash/position reconciliations, and operational risk controls for a broker-dealer. Requires 3+ years brokerage operations experience, knowledge of international settlement practices, SWIFT, DTCC, and regulatory compliance (must hold or obtain Series 99).
Lead strategy, growth, licensing, product, and operations for Alpaca's global crypto exchange business, including B2C trading and B2B2C Crypto-as-a-Service. Requires 5+ years in crypto/regulatory trading venues with business-line ownership.
Product Manager owning end-to-end development and rollout of a new trading asset class or ancillary product (e.g. MMFs, FX, Options, margin) at a brokerage API platform. Primary customers are partners and developers; success measured by adoption and production usage. Requires 5+ years PM or related experience with depth in regulated trading surfaces, B2B API shipping, SQL, and comfort working alongside compliance/legal teams.
Senior Fullstack Engineer embedded in brokerage operations to replace manual processes with durable automations and UIs. Requires 5+ years experience, strong Golang and React/TypeScript skills, and ability to model human workflows as systems.
Oversee financial and operational compliance for a self-clearing broker-dealer, including FOCUS reporting, net capital monitoring under SEC Rules 15c3-1/3, regulatory filings, internal controls, audits, and advising on capital strategies. Requires active Series 27 license, 7+ years experience, and bachelor's in Accounting/Finance.
Senior Software Engineer building and scaling Alpaca's global payments and treasury platform using event-driven microservices. Requires 3+ years experience with Go, Kubernetes, GCP, distributed systems, and financial concepts like payment rails and double-entry accounting.
IT Operations Specialist providing helpdesk support, device deployment, onboarding/offboarding, MDM management, and endpoint security for a fully distributed remote team. Requires 3+ years IT support experience, deep expertise across Linux/Mac/Windows, scripting/automation skills, and on-call availability.
Account Executive responsible for full sales cycle of Alpaca's Broker API to US fintechs, broker-dealers, RIAs and wealth managers. Requires 3+ years sales experience, Series 7 license, and strong relationships in the investment advisory/broker-dealer industry.
Own and continuously improve a public-facing website as a living product. Refine stakeholder inputs with design/copy edits, define metrics for SEO/funnel performance, build CMS/analytics infrastructure with engineering, and align cross-functional teams on consistent messaging and content ecosystem linkages. Requires 7+ years web ops/project management experience plus hands-on design and data fluency.
Senior full-stack engineer building and maintaining a partner-facing Broker API Dashboard. Designs scalable user-facing features end-to-end using TypeScript/React, Golang/C#, and PostgreSQL.
Lead operations for digital assets and brokerage infrastructure at a Series D fintech, overseeing trading, compliance, and scaling for stocks, crypto, and derivatives.
Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business questions into analytical outputs. Build and maintain data models in SQL and dbt, create dashboards in Metabase, and use Python for deeper analysis.
Alpaca is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead and scale an engineering organization focused on institutional trading capabilities across multiple asset classes. This role involves defining the engineering roadmap, driving architectural decisions, and partnering with senior leaders to evolve the platform.
The International Accounting Manager will oversee global accounting operations, multi-entity consolidations, and intercompany accounting across various international jurisdictions. This role ensures timely financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence.
Own a core brokerage accounts sub-surface (KYC/identity, account types, sub-accounts, or IRA) end-to-end. Ship production APIs and integrations for fintech partners in a regulated environment.
Own the tax product lifecycle for IRS reporting, cost basis tracking, and compliance at a self-clearing broker-dealer. Drive roadmap, vendor relationships, and cross-functional coordination to ensure accurate, on-time filings as the company scales new asset classes.
Own internal product roadmap to automate high-risk brokerage operations (AML/KYC, reconciliations, tax reporting). Bridge operational reality with growth ambitions using automation, AI, and data-driven prioritization.
Architects, builds, and scales mission-critical tax platform systems using Golang microservices, Temporal workflows, and Redpanda data pipelines to ensure compliance and accuracy in financial operations. Requires 5+ years experience with deep Golang and distributed systems expertise.
Owns core crypto product surface (trading, custody, wallets, tokenization, or on-chain settlement) for B2B broker-as-a-service platform. Drives roadmap, partners with eng/compliance, ships features for developers/institutions. Requires 5+ years PM/eng experience and crypto depth.
Builds and maintains AI platform infrastructure for agentic systems, including connectors, execution environments, governance, and self-service tools to enable safe, scalable AI use across engineering and business teams. Requires 8+ years experience with LLM agents, GCP, and cloud-native tech.
Builds and scales market data systems for low-latency trading APIs covering stocks, options, crypto, and FX. Requires 4+ years experience with Go, Kubernetes, GCP, networking, and Linux for high-scale backend services.
Senior SDET improves automated/manual testing infrastructure, develops API testing strategies, standardizes tooling, and ensures platform scalability using Kubernetes and CI pipelines. Requires 5+ years experience, Go proficiency, and startup background.
Designs, builds, and maintains full-stack systems for Trading API, including frontend dashboards and backend financial services like payments, trading, and market data. Requires 5+ years experience with Golang, TypeScript/React, SQL, and REST APIs.
Builds and maintains platform shared services including Redpanda event streaming and auth systems using Go. Owns infrastructure, deployments, and Kubernetes ops at scale in a startup environment. Requires 5+ years experience with 1+ in Go and advanced K8s skills.
Designs performant motion graphics and interaction animations for web/mobile products, collaborating with designers and engineers to implement code-ready motion systems that enhance UX.