Jobs at Alpaca

Manage borrowed and lent securities to maximize profitability and minimize risk. Identify and execute borrow/loan opportunities, automate trading workflows, monitor loans and recalls, manage counterparties, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations to build securities lending and tokenized equities financing infrastructure.

This role involves managing internal product workflows, automating solutions for operational efficiency, and collaborating cross-functionally to drive improvements in Alpaca's operational processes.

As a Lead Product Designer, you will own the design process, champion user needs, collaborate across teams, and manage product launches, ensuring design quality in complex web and mobile applications.

The Product Manager will oversee money movement and settlement systems, managing the product lifecycle, collaborating with engineering and compliance teams, and driving adoption among partners.

The Product Manager, New Assets will own a core trading product area, working with partners and developers to design and implement new trading capabilities while ensuring compliance with regulations and operational efficiency. Success is measured by partner adoption and production usage.

The Lead Product Manager will own and execute on the accounts product area, focusing on regulatory compliance, product vision, and partner adoption. Responsibilities include managing the accounts roadmap, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and shaping operational processes for account products.

The Lead Product Manager will manage the money movement and settlements product area, focusing on JIT funding, post-trade settlements, and coordinating across partners and operational teams to enhance product offerings.

Manage the tax product lifecycle for a broker-dealer, ensuring accurate and timely IRS reporting and vendor management. Drive cross-functional collaboration and scale tax operations with new asset classes and account types.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll build and optimize our algo trading platform, requiring expertise in both frontend and backend systems, high throughput design, and experience with trading systems.

As a Senior Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain systems for Alpaca, mentor talent, ensure stability, and collaborate globally.

Build and maintain analytics data models, dashboards, and reports. Use SQL (Postgres, Trino, Iceberg) and dbt to power financial metrics. Perform deep-dive analyses using SQL and Python (Jupyter, Pandas) to answer business questions, operationalize data, and improve reporting and automation.

As a Senior SDET, you will enhance testing practices, improve CI pipelines, mentor engineers, and ensure platform reliability through comprehensive testing strategies.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and build scalable systems for global tax compliance, ensuring accuracy and auditability. Responsibilities include developing microservices in Golang, managing data pipelines, and leading cross-functional collaboration.

Operate and improve Alpaca's production infrastructure: on-call incident response, define SLIs/SLOs, enhance observability, ship infrastructure as code via GitOps, and strengthen PostgreSQL reliability (performance, migrations, HA/DR). Mentor teams on reliability and database fundamentals.

Design, implement, and maintain frontend and mobile applications for Trading API customers. Own high-visibility features end-to-end, ensure performance, responsiveness, accessibility, and mentor peers while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, high-availability backend brokerage systems for Japan. Build gRPC/REST microservices, integrate with Japan market infrastructure and vendors, ensure regulatory compliance, participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot incidents, and collaborate across global teams while mentoring and driving regional engineering efforts.

Lead and own brokerage product strategy and execution for Saudi and GCC markets. Define CMA-compliant features, write product requirements, engage regulators and clients, improve settlement/custody workflows, and collaborate cross-functionally to scale Alpaca's brokerage infrastructure regionally.

Design, implement, and maintain frontend applications and internal tools. Own delivery of high-visibility features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor peers, and ensure performant, accessible, polished user interfaces integrated with backend systems.

Manage B2B customer relationships from onboarding through renewal, ensuring adoption, satisfaction, retention and growth. Serve as primary contact, run QBRs, forecast expansion, manage escalations, advocate partner needs internally, and influence product and operations to achieve customer outcomes.

Build and maintain core post-trade clearing systems and securities-finance infrastructure. Own projects end-to-end, design reliable distributed services and RESTful APIs, integrate new clearing partners, participate in on-call rotation, and improve systems to enable new product offerings.