Jobs at Alpaca

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

Build and maintain Alpaca Connect developer-platform experiences using TypeScript, React, and Go. Improve onboarding, app management, compliance review, publishing, consent, and permissions workflows. Design APIs and integrations with identity, account, trading, and market-data systems while creating secure, auditable self-service tools. Own features from design through production and collaborate with Product, Design, Compliance, Support, Partnerships, and Platform teams.

Serve as the primary technical expert for APAC enterprise customers, resolving complex L2 escalations involving distributed systems and APIs. Lead root-cause analyses, collaborate with Support, Product, and Engineering, improve escalation workflows through tooling and training, and create runbooks and technical documentation. The role requires troubleshooting expertise, SQL, Kubernetes, Grafana, fintech and ITIL knowledge, strong communication, and an APAC work schedule beginning at 5:00 PM EST.

Supports the Chief Compliance Officer in executing the firm’s compliance program. Responsibilities include applying FINRA and SEC regulations, monitoring controls, improving processes, maintaining policies and supervisory procedures, reviewing communications, supporting regulatory examinations and filings, conducting branch inspections, and assisting with product governance.

Provide business-oriented legal guidance on U.S. broker-dealer regulation, digital assets, payments, privacy, product launches, marketing, onboarding, regulatory engagement, agreements, policies, and disputes. Monitor SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC developments; conduct legal research; advise cross-functional teams; and manage litigation, arbitration, outside counsel, claims, and discovery.

Own high-impact cross-functional operating constraints from discovery through measurable resolution. Diagnose root causes across domains, design and build process, automation, governance, or organizational solutions, mobilize teams without direct authority, drive adoption, measure outcomes, and establish durable ownership. The role requires systems thinking, analytical rigor, prioritization, executive communication, and sustained implementation to create operating leverage across the company.

Design, build, and operate highly available GCP infrastructure for trading-critical systems. Own Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes and GKE operations, observability, networking, data stores, and message brokers. Build self-service developer platforms, implement SRE practices, manage incidents and postmortems, and participate in a global follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

Manage trading operations, including customer activity surveillance, trade execution monitoring, exception handling, cryptocurrency inventory, cash management, and account reconciliation. Support anti-money laundering investigations, analyze data, improve workflows and tools, and coordinate with internal and external partners. The role requires strong attention to detail, adaptability, independent judgment, effective communication, and weekend availability.

Build and architect high-performance advisory brokerage services for block trading, portfolio management, and IRA products. Develop frontend and backend systems, databases, and distributed architectures with strong concurrency, scalability, availability, and low-latency performance. Design order management and financial transaction systems while contributing across the technology stack in an early-stage environment.

Own and scale global People Operations infrastructure, including BambooHR, HR system integrations, employee lifecycle processes, benefits, support workflows, labor-law compliance, policies, audits, data standards, people dashboards, compensation analysis, and automated SOPs. The role transforms manual processes into secure, scalable, data-driven operations across international jurisdictions while improving data integrity, compliance, and leadership reporting.

Design, build, and maintain scalable brokerage systems supporting international markets. Develop Go-based backend services, gRPC microservices, React interfaces, and vendor integrations. Collaborate with global engineering teams to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets. Lead regional reliability efforts, act as incident commander, troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, and contribute to recruitment and cross-functional initiatives. Participate in on-call support and help ensure proactive 24x7 system stability.

Lead Alpaca’s commercial and strategic expansion across the Middle East, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and broader GCC. Build relationships with fintechs, exchanges, brokerages, banks, regulators, and government institutions; identify and convert partnership opportunities; execute regional go-to-market initiatives; analyze CRM and business metrics; and represent the company at industry, regulatory, client, and media engagements. The role requires strong financial services expertise, regional networks, executive communication, and regular travel.

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead technical direction in architecting foundational software systems for Alpaca's Middle East operations, ensuring reliability, scalability, and compliance. You'll drive complex software initiatives, maintain high quality standards, and coordinate infrastructure strategies while mentoring engineers and influencing organizational practices.

As an Operations Reliability Engineer, design and implement automations to eliminate manual tasks in brokerage operations, focusing on efficiency and reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Manage end-to-end custody operations for Saudi-market assets, ensuring safekeeping, T+2 settlement, reconciliations, corporate actions, regulatory compliance with CMA, and team leadership while collaborating with Edaa, Tadawul, custodians, engineering, and product to automate workflows and reduce risk.

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.

Leads Alpaca’s global Corporate Actions function across U.S. and international markets. Oversees mandatory and voluntary events, supervisory controls, reconciliations, incident management, exception handling, team performance, and operational risk. Partners with Product, Engineering, Trading, Ledger, Security Master, and Operations teams to improve system synchronization, automation, observability, and scalability. Builds global operating standards across custodians, currencies, tax regimes, depositories, and market conventions while developing team expertise and succession coverage.

Own full-cycle recruiting for high-volume technical roles, primarily in Engineering. Partner with engineering leaders, develop hiring strategies and talent pipelines, manage concurrent searches, source difficult-to-find candidates, report on recruiting metrics, improve candidate experience, and use AI, ATS tools, and recruiting data to enhance hiring processes.

Serve as the technical product expert supporting enterprise sales: present demos, translate requirements into solutions, own technical engagements (discovery, RFPs, validation), create sales collateral, advise on regional regulatory/compliance specifics, collaborate with Sales and Product, and travel as needed to close and onboard partners.