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About this role
Alpaca is hiring a Trade Surveillance Analyst to monitor trading activity and support compliance in the Financial Crimes Department. The role involves investigating suspicious trading behavior and ensuring market integrity.
Description
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. 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 10 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
Responsibilities
- Development, review, and test trade-surveillance scenarios, alert logic, escalation procedures, and control documentation.
- Monitor trading activity using Surveyor and Alpaca’s internal systems to identify potential market abuse, suspicious trading, unusual order behavior, and other conduct risks.
- Review and investigate trade-surveillance alerts involving potential spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, insider trading, manipulative order activity, information-barrier issues, or other suspicious trading patterns.
- Conduct real-time and post-trade reviews to detect anomalies, assess risk, and determine whether escalation is appropriate.
- Clearly document surveillance reviews, investigative steps, evidence reviewed, rationale, conclusions, and recommended next actions.
- Escalate suspicious or high-risk matters to AML leadership, Compliance, Legal, Risk, and other appropriate internal stakeholders.
- Coordinate with the AML Department on trading-related investigations, including matters that may require suspicious-activity review or SAR consideration.
- Support KYC/AML and transaction-monitoring processes by identifying trading behavior that may indicate financial-crime risk, account misuse, fraud, market manipulation, or other suspicious activity.
- Respond to internal escalations involving trading activity, account behavior, customer activity, or potential violations of firm policy.
- Assist with regulatory inquiries, audit requests, internal reviews, and other examinations related to trade surveillance, AML, and market-integrity controls.
- Partner with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Technology, Operations, and business stakeholders to strengthen Alpaca’s surveillance framework and improve investigation workflows.
- Identify emerging surveillance risks, suspicious-trading typologies, control gaps, and opportunities to improve the quality and effectiveness of the trade-surveillance program.
- Prepare clear summaries, metrics, and management reporting related to trade-surveillance activity, alert trends, escalations, and investigation outcomes.
Requirements
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Fintech trade surveillance, AML investigations, transaction monitoring, financial-crime compliance, brokerage compliance, market surveillance, risk, investigations, or a related control function.
- Experience working at a broker-dealer, fintech, trading platform, exchange, introducing broker, clearing firm, market maker, proprietary trading firm, crypto trading or other regulated financial institution.
- Strong understanding of trading activity, order behavior, market structure, customer activity, and potential indicators of market manipulation or suspicious activity.
- Familiarity with market-abuse typologies, including spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, insider trading, unusual price or volume activity, and manipulative order behavior.
- Ability to review trading data, identify behavioral patterns, investigate exceptions, and form well-supported conclusions.
- Experience documenting investigations in a clear, concise, and audit-ready manner.
- Strong analytical skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize multiple reviews or investigations.
- High integrity, discretion, and ability to handle confidential information appropriately.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex trading activity to AML, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Technology, and business stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating across teams in a fast-paced environment.
- FINRA Series 7 license.
Conditions & Benefits
Conditions
- 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.
Job Details
Salary$75,000–$125,000
LocationRemote
AI Score★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10
PostedSep 29, 2026 (13d ago)
Tags & Skills
cryptofintechOtherremote
Tech Stack
AML InvestigationsTrading ActivityMarket SurveillanceRisk AssessmentAnalytical SkillsTrade SurveillanceTransaction MonitoringRegulatory ComplianceAttention to DetailBrokerage ComplianceMarket ManipulationFinancial CrimesBroker-dealerWash TradingSpoofing