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### Your Role: - Define and own and execute the engineering roadmap for Alpaca’s institutional trading platform - Build, lead, and scale a high-performing team of engineers with a strong culture of ownership and execution - Partner with the Office of the CTO and Global Head of Brokerage to align engineering priorities with institutional and prime brokerage strategy - Lead the evolution toward a multi-asset trading architecture supporting cross-margining across equities, options, FX, futures, and other derivatives - Design and deliver institutional trading capabilities, including but not limited to: - Drive architectural decisions across trading APIs, our proprietary order management system, real-time risk, and margin engines - Set and enforce technical standards for performance, availability, scalability, and operational resilience in latency-sensitive systems - Coordinate multiple concurrent initiatives across trading, risk, margin, asset classes, and customer-facing tooling - Work cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Finance to deliver production-ready systems - Represent institutional trading engineering in executive-level planning and decision-making - Provide technical and architectural thought leadership in trading and brokerage technology, influencing direction internally and through industry engagement - Hands-on engineering, such as writing PoC code, conducting code reviews, deploying to production, and providing an L3 escalation contact point.

### Who You Are (Must-Haves): - A Director-level (or above) engineering leader with experience owning critical, market-facing platforms - Proven experience building and scaling engineering teams focused on complex, high-impact systems - Deep understanding of institutional trading and brokerage technology, including execution systems, risk and margin platforms, and trading analytics - Experience designing or operating systems that support cross-asset risk and margining across multiple asset classes - Strong architectural judgment and the ability to balance speed, reliability, and control in regulated environments - Deep knowledge of OS fundamentals and distributed systems, sufficient to set architectural direction and evaluate designs for performance-critical trading systems. - Effective partner to senior business, brokerage, and product leaders - Clear communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders

### How We Take Care of You: - Competitive Salary & Stock Options - Health Benefits - New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 - Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.