Jobs at Alpaca

Design and implement Alpaca's low-latency, high-throughput algo trading platform. Work across frontend and backend, databases, and distributed systems; optimize performance and concurrency; architect scalable, highly available services; and develop/extend OMS and RMS functionality for trading/exchange systems.

Own and optimize AI-powered support tools (chatbots, agent copilots, knowledge retrieval, automation). Monitor performance, identify automation opportunities, create and test prompts/workflows, maintain training data, coordinate integrations, and produce documentation and training for support teams.

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.

Design and build Alpaca's low-latency, high-throughput algo trading platform. Implement frontend and backend components, optimize performance, design distributed systems and data models, and develop/order and risk management systems for high availability.

No specific responsibilities were listed. Likely to lead and scale operations for digital assets, manage brokerage/clearing operational processes, ensure compliance, and coordinate cross-functional teams.

The Senior Full-Stack Engineer will design, implement, and maintain systems for Trading API customers, focusing on both frontend and backend development, while leading projects and mentoring peers.

Own end-to-end global equity settlement processes, investigate and resolve trade exceptions and reconciliation breaks, monitor settlement activity, coordinate with custodians and counterparties, maintain regulatory controls and reporting, and partner with Engineering to automate workflows and improve operational efficiency.

Lead strategy, growth, licensing, and operations for Alpaca's global crypto exchange business. Drive product, commercial, vendor, and compliance initiatives; oversee audits, expansion, B2B/B2C sales, GTM, and cross-functional coordination to scale a compliant crypto trading platform.

The role involves leading the engineering team to build and scale institutional trading capabilities across various asset classes while ensuring a robust architecture and technical standards.

The International Accounting Manager will manage global accounting operations, oversee multi-entity consolidations, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance accounting processes within a rapidly expanding, diverse financial services context.

Lead Alpaca's data department, managing 15 team members across Platform Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science. Oversee data strategy, operational delivery, and architecture decisions, ensuring alignment with business needs and cost management.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Alpaca, you will ensure system reliability and performance, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with teams to design scalable features.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

Design, implement, and maintain frontend applications and internal tools. Own delivery of high-visibility features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor peers, and ensure performant, accessible, polished user interfaces integrated with backend systems.

As a Senior AI Platform Engineer, you will build and maintain AI platform infrastructure, enabling scalable access to AI tools and workflows, ensure security and reliability, and define deployment standards.

Build and maintain analytics data models, dashboards, and reports. Use SQL (Postgres, Trino, Iceberg) and dbt to power financial metrics. Perform deep-dive analyses using SQL and Python (Jupyter, Pandas) to answer business questions, operationalize data, and improve reporting and automation.

The Motion Designer will create high-quality motion graphics for web and mobile, ensuring efficiency in code-based implementation and collaboration with design and engineering teams.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and build scalable market data systems, improve API architecture, and enhance overall system performance, contributing to Alpaca's infrastructure for trading financial assets.

The Product Manager, New Assets will own a core trading product area, working with partners and developers to design and implement new trading capabilities while ensuring compliance with regulations and operational efficiency. Success is measured by partner adoption and production usage.

Embed with brokerage operations to observe and automate manual workflows; design, build, deploy, and monitor auditable backend services and UIs; measure impact with operations metrics; produce RFCs; collaborate with compliance/security; own CI/CD, on-call, and incident response for production systems.