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Americas

  • Build Alpaca's algo trading platform to deliver high quality and performance for users.
  • Design and architect the platform by wearing many hats in a small team, writing tons of code.
  • Leverage deep knowledge in frontend and backend, databases, distributed systems, and CPU-level hardware for high throughput.

C++ Go Python Rust Java

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Americas

  • Design and architect the algo trading platform with deep knowledge in frontend, backend, databases, and distributed systems.
  • Write high-quality code and make critical decisions to deliver the best customer experience.
  • Work with low-level CPU hardware and concurrency for high throughput and availability.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure company. The team is 380+ globally distributed members with a culture of curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

Global

  • Own and maintain the Java client library, ensuring robustness and ease of integration.
  • Design and develop high-performance server applications in C/C++ for low-latency market data.
  • Optimize codebase for high throughput and implement tools for petabyte-scale data processing.

Databento is the market data platform for modern finance, providing real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API. The company is composed of alumni from top quantitative firms and focuses on performance and reliability with a simple developer experience.

North America Unlimited PTO

  • Work on features to increase speed and functionality of trading infrastructure, including new algorithms and exchange integrations.
  • Play an active role in executing system architecture and roadmap, collaborating with Product Management.
  • Grow to become an expert in entire trading systems and use deductive reasoning to solve complex problems.

sFOX is a full-service prime dealer that unites liquidity from over 30 exchanges and OTC desks. Founded in 2014, the company is backed by prominent investors and has a rapidly growing team.

US

  • Own and maintain our C# client library for external users.
  • Design and develop high-performance server applications in C++.
  • Optimize codebase for high throughput and low latency.

Databento is the market data platform for modern finance, providing real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API. The team includes alumni of leading quantitative firms, indicating a strong engineering culture.

UK 6w PTO

  • Design and build performance-critical components for a high-frequency trading platform.
  • Own the full lifecycle from design to production support, including incident response.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions that shape the platform.

Reactive Markets is the 2026 OTC Trading Platform of the Year, handling over $50 billion in daily trading volumes across FX, Equities, and Cryptocurrency. Our engineering team is small, senior, and deeply invested in building cutting edge, reliable, high-performance systems.

UK 6w PTO

  • Build low-latency trading infrastructure on Linux, including pricing engines, connectivity gateways, and market-data systems.
  • Own the full lifecycle of your code from design to production support, including incident response and continuous improvement.
  • Work with modern C++20, Go, and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS with microsecond-level latency optimisation.

Reactive Markets is an OTC trading platform that handles over $50 billion in daily trading volumes across FX, Equities, and Cryptocurrency, connecting 40+ of the world's leading liquidity providers. Their engineering team is small, senior, and deeply invested in building cutting-edge, reliable, high-performance systems.

Global

  • Build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca's global payments and treasury platform.
  • Operate in an industry where money movement is critical, using modern, event-driven, and highly scalable architectures.
  • Collaborate with a distributed team to design and implement solutions with autonomy, focusing on quality and resilience.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. Our global team of 380+ members values curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

$170,000–$240,000/yr
US

  • Build and scale mission-critical order and execution management infrastructure in Rust.
  • Design systems balancing low-latency execution, fault tolerance, and correctness across distributed trading workflows.
  • Translate evolving regulatory and market structure requirements into reliable, testable platform capabilities.

Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm modernizing the brokerage ecosystem with a cloud-native clearing and custody system. Founded in 2018, the company is a small, growing team with a meritocratic culture that champions collaboration.

US

  • Own the architecture of the Nexus Exchange end-to-end while staying hands-on in production code.
  • Lead the engineering org, managing timelines, roadmaps, and resourcing across senior engineers and pods.
  • Drive product and customer outcomes with high-frequency iteration and a business-first mindset.

Nexus is a blockchain built to natively embed the world’s financial system into one compounding system, unifying infrastructure across chains. Headquartered in San Francisco with a growing presence in Buenos Aires, the cross-continental team of engineers and cryptographers is backed by investors like Pantera and Lightspeed.

$124,000–$329,200/yr
US

  • Design and scale highly available backend services and APIs supporting AI-powered developer tools.
  • Develop distributed systems optimizing reliability, latency, cost, and performance at global scale.
  • Provide technical leadership through mentorship, code reviews, and collaboration across engineering teams.

Our partner is building next-generation AI-assisted software development experiences. This remote-first role contributes to a globally impactful AI platform with a collaborative culture focused on innovation, inclusion, and technical excellence.

$200,000–$350,000/yr
US

  • Build the core AI platform that powers a copilot inside a new, AI-native trading experience.
  • Develop a high-performance backend in Rust supporting streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable orchestration of model plus tools.
  • Design robust APIs and runtime components for AI capabilities including authentication, rate limits, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks.

Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing legacy infrastructure used across capital markets. Founded in 2018, the company has built a cloud-native clearing and custody system and supports billions in trading volume per day, with a culture focused on collaboration and diversity.

US 3w PTO 20w maternity 20w paternity

  • Design and build core financial systems including trading, ledger, and billing.
  • Develop systems for transaction processing, reconciliation, and portfolio state management.
  • Build and scale real-time and batch data pipelines.

Arta leverages AI and digital tools to make financial products accessible to a broader global audience. The company values trust, teamwork, and adaptability.

United States

  • Identify and execute borrow and loan opportunities across equities, fixed income, and ETFs using manual and automated strategies.
  • Leverage Python and SQL to streamline tasks, develop analytical tools, and automate data-driven decisions.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to optimize data pipelines, trading systems, and risk controls.

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 employees and is backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors.

Europe

  • Design and build mission-critical trading systems using Rust and AWS.
  • Take ownership of high-impact trading infrastructure and set technical direction.
  • Drive continuous improvement in system performance, reliability, and operability.

Keyrock is a highly-profitable firm specializing in capital markets and trading systems. They operate with a global, fully-remote team and emphasize a fast-paced, collaborative culture.

$175,000–$229,000/yr
US

  • Lead end-to-end architecture and implementation of high-performance detection tools.
  • Mentor junior engineers through design reviews and promote maintainable code standards.
  • Collaborate with product managers and scrum masters to deliver high-quality releases on schedule.

Corelight defends the world's most sensitive networks by transforming digital footprints into actionable insights, using open-source innovations and agentic AI. It is a fast-growing network detection and response platform with a collaborative, inclusive, distributed culture.