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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.
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.
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:
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.