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  • 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.

GoLang Python C/C++ NodeJS Kubernetes

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Americas

  • Lead the team building Alpaca's algo trading platform, designing and architecting with a hands-on approach while writing code and making critical technical decisions.
  • Own technical direction, roadmap, delivery, day-to-day execution, code quality, production ownership, and people development for a small engineering team.
  • Require deep expertise in frontend/backend, databases, distributed systems, and low-latency trading systems, with previous leadership experience.

Alpaca is a global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and more, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries. Our team of 400+ globally distributed members spans the USA, Canada, Japan, and beyond, backed by $400 million in funding.

EMEA

  • Design highly scalable, mission-critical market data provider services.
  • Maintain good software quality and test coverage, and participate in code reviews.
  • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. The company is backed by $400 million in funding and has a diverse team of 400+ members across multiple countries.

US

  • Design and implement low-latency backend systems and APIs for quoting, hedging, and executing across on-chain and traditional trading venues.
  • Collaborate with the trading team to define interfaces and workflows between pricing, execution, and market data services.
  • Build reconciliation and data-integrity tooling to ensure positions, fills, and PnL consistency across live trading state.

Ondo Finance provides institutional-grade, blockchain-enabled investment products and services, with a technology arm developing DeFi and an asset management arm creating tokenized funds. They are a well-capitalized, fully remote team with members across the U.S., backed by top investors.

Europe

  • Design and build proprietary advisory services (Block Trading, Portfolio management, IRA) with high quality and performance.
  • Write code across frontend, backend, databases, and distributed systems, wearing multiple hats in a small team.
  • Apply deep knowledge of low-latency systems, concurrency, and object-oriented data modeling for scalable architecture.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and more. With 400+ globally distributed team members and $400 million in funding, they foster a diverse, curious, and empathetic culture.

Brazil

  • Lead a small engineering team building and scaling algorithmic trading systems.
  • Own technical direction, architecture, and production reliability of trading services.
  • Collaborate across product, operations, compliance, and engineering teams in a remote-first environment.

They build high-performance algorithmic trading infrastructure. They are an early-stage remote-first company with a small engineering team.

$140,000–$200,000/yr
USA Unlimited PTO

  • Develop new products and features on the Gemini platform within tight-knit teams.
  • Write automated tests and collaborate with QA to ensure correct operation of features.
  • Review code for correctness, style, and security concerns.

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded in 2014, offering crypto products and services in over 70 countries. As a publicly traded company, it focuses on bridging traditional finance with the cryptoeconomy.

Global

  • Lead a team of backend and full-stack engineers, driving architectural decisions for scalable APIs and microservices.
  • Partner with product and other teams to ensure the platform remains reliable and fast, supporting new integrations.
  • Stay hands-on with code, reviewing pull requests and unblocking engineers on complex problems.

Tradeify builds a high-performance trading ecosystem for futures and crypto markets, partnering with platforms like NinjaTrader and Tradovate. The company is rapidly scaling and serves a global trader community, with technology at its core.

Global

  • Design and build core systems for our new product from scratch.
  • Build low-latency, high-reliability services that interact directly with Solana's transaction and block building pipeline.
  • Own critical infrastructure: order routing, execution, real-time market data, and position management.

Jito builds the market layer of Solana, providing execution, capital, and incentive infrastructure for the network's onchain economy. They are a small, profitable company with a lean, high-density team that values ownership, fast execution, and technical excellence.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed backend systems powering platform and product capabilities.
  • Own backend services end-to-end, from architecture to monitoring, while collaborating with product and engineering peers.
  • Build and evolve Web3 platform backend components, including protocol integrations and blockchain network support.

Zerion builds backend systems for Web3 infrastructure, powering API and wallet products trusted by 50+ top crypto brands. They have a fully remote team with strong ownership and high code quality, processing over 3.1B requests and supporting 1.7M+ active funded wallets.

LATAM

  • Design and implement high-performance components in Rust, C++, or Go for the DEX engine and protocol runtime.
  • Build low-latency pipelines for order execution, event propagation, and state updates, optimizing concurrency and memory layout.
  • Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks using profiling and benchmarking, driving system design decisions for senior candidates.

Nexus is the engine for verifiable finance, building a blockchain designed to embed the global financial system into one compounding system. Headquartered in San Francisco with a growing presence in Buenos Aires, the cross-continental team is backed by leading investors and works with more than 100 partners.

Europe USA

  • Own key architecture and technical decisions across backend systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Build and operate real-time data pipelines handling order book updates, trades, and market events.
  • Design, develop, and maintain API infrastructure including GraphQL and WebSockets, and optimize PostgreSQL, Redis, and ClickHouse for high-volume trading data.

They build infrastructure for decentralized financial markets, powering real-time trading and data pipelines for products used by hundreds of thousands of traders. They are a high-growth, remote-first team that values technical excellence, collaboration, and significant ownership in a fast-paced 0-to-1 environment.

$180,000–$300,000/yr
Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build backend services in Rust for high-volume financial transactions with strong guarantees.
  • Own features end-to-end, from spec to production, and set technical direction for your area.
  • Integrate with external partners and improve engineering quality across observability and security.

MoonPay builds the operating system for value movement, enabling enterprises to fund, tokenize, trade, and spend digital assets. With top rankings in Fortune's Crypto 100 and Forbes' Best Startup Employers, they foster a high-velocity, high-accountability culture.

  • Daily surveillance and operational tasks for trading and cash management.
  • Cryptocurrency trade execution monitoring and account management.
  • Support AML program and drive impactful changes across workflows.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. They have a diverse team of 400+ members worldwide and are backed by $400 million in funding.

EU

  • Design, build, and operate backend services for Aave App across onboarding, funding, savings, withdrawals, portfolio data, and customer communications.
  • Build transaction-orchestration and indexing services that safely prepare, submit, monitor, and reconcile onchain activity across its full lifecycle.
  • Lead technical reviews for high-value systems and improve testing, observability, alerting, incident response, and deployment practices.

Aave Labs builds trusted products that expand access to lending, credit, and savings globally. We are a global team holding a high bar for quality and craftsmanship, turning complex technology into simple and reliable experiences.

Americas

  • Identify, develop, and manage relationships with issuers, liquidity providers, and market makers in the tokenized equity ecosystem.
  • Own the end-to-end onboarding process for new issuers and market makers, ensuring a smooth experience and tracking pipeline.
  • Play a hands-on role in growing Alpaca's Instant Tokenization Network, defining partnership models and liquidity structures.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. The company has over 400 globally distributed team members and is backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors.

  • Own backend solutions end to end, from understanding business problems to production deployment.
  • Design and evolve services for performance, scale, resilience, and data integrity.
  • Diagnose production problems, address root causes, and share knowledge across the team.

Trading212 enables everyone to build wealth by creating exceptional trading and investing products. Serving over 6 million clients with more than €38 billion in assets under management, the company values high standards, high velocity, and engineering ownership.

United States

  • Navigate complex regulatory frameworks to design and launch innovative financial products and services.
  • Lead legal reviews of product design, marketing, and customer onboarding to ensure compliance while enabling business growth.
  • Manage litigation, arbitration, and other disputes, including coordinating with outside counsel and advising on risk and resolution.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. With over 400 globally distributed team members and backed by $400 million in funding, Alpaca fosters a diverse and collaborative culture centered on curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design, develop, and support enterprise solutions and infrastructure for CIQ's HPC and cloud-native products.
  • Lead architecture discussions, drive proof of concepts, and guide projects from ambiguous requirements to implementation.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, sales, and open-source communities to improve products and share knowledge.

CIQ builds enterprise infrastructure for demanding workloads, including OS, AI, HPC, and cloud-native orchestration. As the founding partner of Rocky Linux, they serve major enterprises and research institutions with a builder-driven, open source culture.

$190,000–$230,000/yr
United States

  • Lead a team within the Trading Platform organization, responsible for order flow, market data, and real-time systems.
  • Ensure reliability, quality, and delivery of the team's systems through operational excellence and people leadership.
  • Collaborate with product, senior engineers, and operations to drive technical investment and roadmap priorities.

Topstep builds a trading platform for funded traders, enabling them to trade with real funds. The company fosters a collaborative culture with fully remote to hybrid work options, and offers competitive benefits.

Americas

  • Lead the design and buildout of Alpaca’s core clearing infrastructure across brokerage, custody, ledger, asset movement, and global market expansion.
  • Define long-term architecture for clearing platform across accounts, positions, balances, ledgers, settlements, and regulatory records.
  • Partner with engineering, operations, finance, compliance, and legal to build scalable, controlled, and regulator-ready systems.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and more. Our diverse team of 400+ globally distributed members is deeply committed to open-source and community.