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About this role

Alpaca is seeking a Director of Engineering for their Trading division. This remote role involves leading a team to enhance institutional trading capabilities across multiple asset classes, ensuring a robust and reliable trading platform.

Description

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 9 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Responsibilities

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.
Requirements

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
Conditions & Benefits

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.

Job Details
Salary$150,000–$250,000
LocationRemote
AI Score★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10
PostedMay 30, 2026 (58d ago)
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Tech Stack
Cross-AssetStakeholder CommunicationCode ReviewsDistributed SystemsProduction DeploymentBrokerage TechnologyTeam ScalingEngineering LeadershipHedge FundsMarket InfrastructureAlgorithmic TradingRegulated EnvironmentsInstitutional TradingPerformance CriticalMargin EnginesRisk ManagementArchitectural JudgmentEngineeringTrading Systems

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