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Own the data transformation layer by building scalable dbt and SQL models on Trino and GCP infrastructure. Establish standards for modeling, testing, monitoring, version control, and data quality. Partner with finance, operations, customer success, marketing, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable data products for BI, reporting, and reverse ETL. Optimize warehouse performance and ETL efficiency while supporting near-real-time metrics and financial reporting.

Design, build, and improve distributed clearing and securities-finance systems supporting brokerage products. Own projects from ideation through deployment, develop reliable APIs and integrations, refine existing infrastructure, and participate in on-call operations. The role requires strong systems fundamentals, attention to detail, financial-markets interest, and ownership of production systems handling customers’ money.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of Alpaca’s margin and risk systems across equities, options, crypto, and future asset classes. Design low-latency, high-throughput services for margin calculation, real-time risk enforcement, exposure limits, margin calls, and operational workflows. Drive reliability, correctness, transactional integrity, observability, incident prevention, technical reviews, mentorship, and cross-functional integration with product, brokerage operations, compliance, and engineering teams.

Design, build, and maintain crypto exchange, market-making, wallet, funding, tokenization, backend, and web application systems. Ensure software quality through testing and code reviews, troubleshoot incidents and bugs, and collaborate cross-functionally on scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant financial infrastructure. On-call participation may be required for timely engineering initiatives.

Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Alpaca’s listed futures and prediction market products. Partner with engineering, operations, risk, compliance, regulators, exchanges, clearing organizations, and institutional clients to launch and scale the firm’s regulated FCM. Define requirements, evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, improve margin, clearing, settlement, and trading-risk workflows, and ensure CFTC/NFA compliance across the derivatives platform.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-availability brokerage systems for Japan. Develop backend microservices, APIs, financial integrations, and middle- and back-office systems supporting multi-currency transactions, accounting, settlement, and Japan-specific regulations. Collaborate with global engineering teams and Japanese regulators, vendors, and partners; translate requirements into technical solutions. Participate in incident response, on-call rotations, architecture, mentoring, recruitment initiatives, and regional engineering projects.

Build and architect Alpaca’s high-performance algorithmic trading platform. Responsibilities include writing backend and frontend code, designing distributed and highly available systems, optimizing low-latency and high-throughput performance, and developing scalable databases, messaging systems, concurrency controls, and service-oriented architectures. The role also involves making critical platform decisions and potentially contributing to order and risk management, trading systems, observability, cloud infrastructure, and financial ledger capabilities.

Leads Alpaca’s global tax function, overseeing tax strategy, compliance, reporting, planning, ASC 740 tax provisions, transfer pricing, indirect taxes, and international tax matters. Partners with Finance, Legal, Treasury, Product, and business leaders on transactions, expansion, and regulated financial-services activities. Manages advisors, audits, tax authorities, controls, forecasting, M&A tax diligence, and public-company readiness while building scalable internal tax capabilities.

Manage global equity settlement operations across international markets, including trade matching, settlement exception resolution, cash and position reconciliations, and aged-fail remediation. Coordinate with custodians, counterparties, trading, finance, compliance, and engineering teams. Support SEC, FINRA, and global regulatory controls, reporting, audits, and process improvements. Use SQL, Metabase, and automation tools to improve operational efficiency and analytics.

Own content strategy and go-to-market storytelling for Alpaca’s crypto and tokenization products. Create educational content, launch posts, explainers, newsletters, and thought leadership for B2B and B2C audiences. Develop messaging for issuers, exchanges, market makers, and institutional partners while translating complex product concepts into clear narratives. Collaborate with product, compliance, design, and marketing teams on launches, partner announcements, SEO, content distribution, and adoption initiatives.