- Architect and ship scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems and APIs.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and engineering standards across teams.
- Drive operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
Alpaca
16 open remote positions
Alpaca provides agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and 24/5 trading. The company has 400+ globally distributed members, is backed by $400M, and values curiosity, empathy, and accountability.
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Open Positions
- Support Account Executives with customer research, meeting prep, proposals, and deal documentation.
- Build repeatable GTM workflows using AI tools, CRM, and data enrichment to boost sales efficiency.
- Track follow-ups, coordinate internal stakeholders, and maintain sales materials and enablement resources.
- Define and own how Alpaca measures growth across the entire customer journey, from acquisition to monetization.
- Run the growth experimentation engine, designing A/B tests and causal studies to drive key business metrics.
- Build retention models, LTV forecasts, and unit-economic views to identify compounding levers for growth.
- Work on the heart of broker-dealer operations: clearing and settlement for US equities and options, ensuring systems are reliable and scalable.
- Design and build new systems to enable new product offerings and revenue streams, from ideation to deployment.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain system health while prioritizing elimination of issues to protect team free time.
- Own end-to-end global equity settlement, partnering with custodians and counterparties to ensure timely and accurate settlement across international markets.
- Investigate and resolve trade mismatches, settlement exceptions, and reconciliation breaks, escalating complex issues to the Director of Brokerage Operations.
- Support automation initiatives, leveraging SQL and AI tools, and ensure compliance with SEC, FINRA, and global market regulations.
- Lead the global tax function, including strategy, compliance, reporting, and planning.
- Manage U.S. federal, state, and international tax compliance, including ASC 740 provisions.
- Oversee transfer pricing, indirect taxes, M&A tax due diligence, and tax authority interactions.
- Architect and build high-performance crypto spot and derivatives exchanges, including matching engine, risk engine, and regulatory reporting.
- Lead all crypto engineering, including spot and derivatives exchanges licensed in the US and Bahamas.
- Design scalable backend services, maintain code quality, participate in code reviews, and troubleshoot incidents.
- Own day-to-day compensation programs across a global remote workforce, including base pay, variable pay, and equity processes.
- Build and maintain job architecture, price roles using market data, and run compensation cycles (merit, bonus, equity).
- Partner on headcount planning, people budgeting, and M&A from a Total Rewards perspective, plus lead analytical People projects.
- Own infrastructure as a product, defining a platform maturity model and roadmap.
- Drive CI/CD adoption and cost efficiency across platform and infrastructure.
- Partner with engineering to make infrastructure portable for global scale.
- Own the end-to-end design process from research to post-launch iteration.
- Design complex operational workflows involving multiple roles, data sources, and business rules.
- Build AI-powered prototypes and contribute production code across the front end.
- Lead the team that commands Alpaca's most critical incidents, building the severity model, escalation paths, and 24x7 follow-the-sun coverage.
- Drive severity maturity with Risk on financial and regulatory materiality, and own the escalation path to engineering leadership.
- Own the KPIs for response and mitigation, build a blameless review culture, and automate processes with AI agents.
- Design, build, and evolve the core data platform infrastructure including distributed query engines and orchestration.
- Own our lakehouse infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible on Kubernetes.
- Build and maintain low-latency streaming and batch ingestion pipelines, and scale the BI landscape.
- Own the full sales cycle from outbound prospecting through contract negotiation and close.
- Drive new revenue growth for Alpaca's institutional Broker API business across the United States.
- Develop relationships with key decision makers at fintechs, broker-dealers, RIAs, and other financial institutions.
- Provide high-quality support to enterprise-level clients on order entry, execution, and trading issues.
- Monitor client trading activity for anomalies and stay informed on market developments and corporate actions.
- Collaborate with trading desks, IT, and compliance teams to resolve issues and ensure regulatory compliance.
- Review, prepare, and resolve complex account work, including entity accounts and correspondent partners.
- Process and support day-to-day accounts workflow, including onboarding, maintenance, and lifecycle changes.
- Execute monthly statement and trade confirmation reviews and lead legacy cleanup projects.
- Process and support day-to-day accounts workflow including onboarding, maintenance, updates, and closures.
- Fully own escheatment and abandoned property operations and monthly statement review.
- Execute legacy cleanup and data hygiene projects to meet compliance requirements.