Jobs at Alpaca

Lead and conduct AML, anti-fraud, and securities fraud investigations; prepare SARs; respond to sanctions and regulatory requests; maintain risk assessments; support audits and regulatory engagements; develop policies, procedures, and monitoring controls; collaborate with stakeholders and compile reports for management and regulators.

No specific responsibilities were listed. Likely to lead and scale operations for digital assets, manage brokerage/clearing operational processes, ensure compliance, and coordinate cross-functional teams.

The Senior Full-Stack Engineer will design, implement, and maintain systems for Trading API customers, focusing on both frontend and backend development, while leading projects and mentoring peers.

Design and build Alpaca's low-latency, high-throughput algo trading platform. Implement frontend and backend components, optimize performance, design distributed systems and data models, and develop/order and risk management systems for high availability.

Lead strategy, growth, licensing, and operations for Alpaca's global crypto exchange business. Drive product, commercial, vendor, and compliance initiatives; oversee audits, expansion, B2B/B2C sales, GTM, and cross-functional coordination to scale a compliant crypto trading platform.

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.

The role involves leading the engineering team to build and scale institutional trading capabilities across various asset classes while ensuring a robust architecture and technical standards.

The International Accounting Manager will manage global accounting operations, oversee multi-entity consolidations, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance accounting processes within a rapidly expanding, diverse financial services context.

Process and reconcile domestic and international corporate actions (distributions, reorganizations, redemptions) across asset types; validate event details, liaise with external custodians/vendors, balance house and suspense accounts, research breaks, respond to related tickets, serve as SME, improve procedures, and assist automation with engineering.

Manage B2B/enterprise customer relationships across the full post-signature lifecycle—onboarding, activation, expansion, and renewal. Ensure satisfaction and retention, drive product adoption, forecast growth, handle escalations, deliver QBRs, represent partners internally, and collaborate with Product, Sales, and Operations to align platform outcomes with customer goals.

Manage B2B customer relationships from onboarding through renewal, driving adoption, retention, and growth. Serve as primary contact, handle escalations, deliver QBRs, forecast growth, represent partners internally, and influence product and operations to ensure customer success.

Lead and run Alpaca's data governance and data security program across the lakehouse and analytics stack. Build policies, data classification, entitlement reviews, access controls, metadata/lineage, data quality standards, vendor and use-case reviews, audit evidence for SOC2/ISO27001, and support cross-border sensitive data requests while partnering with Data Engineering, Data Science, Security, Privacy, and Legal.

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.

Lead Alpaca's data department, managing 15 team members across Platform Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science. Oversee data strategy, operational delivery, and architecture decisions, ensuring alignment with business needs and cost management.

Build and architect Alpaca's advisory services (block trading, portfolio management, IRA). Design scalable, low-latency distributed systems, write full-stack code, optimize throughput, work with messaging systems and OMS, and implement high-availability, concurrency-safe solutions for financial trading/exchange workloads.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

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 AI Platform Engineer, you will build and maintain AI platform infrastructure, enabling scalable access to AI tools and workflows, ensure security and reliability, and define deployment standards.

The Motion Designer will create high-quality motion graphics for web and mobile, ensuring efficiency in code-based implementation and collaboration with design and engineering teams.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and build scalable market data systems, improve API architecture, and enhance overall system performance, contributing to Alpaca's infrastructure for trading financial assets.