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Alpaca

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Developer APIs for stocks, options and crypto trading, investing apps, and embedded fintech.

San Mateo, California

Financial Services
501–1,000 people

About

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, self-clearing broker-dealer and a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto. Alpaca delivers embeddable finance solutions for tokenization, fully paid securities lending, high-yield cash, 24/5 trading, Shariah-compliant investing, and more. Today, Alpaca powers over 9 million brokerage accounts across hundreds of fintechs and institutions in 40+ countries, with over $320M in funding from top investors including Drive Capital, Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Derayah Financial, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Open positions

Senior Software Engineer - New Markets Japan (JLPT N1 Fluent)

Remote · Canada

Design and maintain scalable brokerage systems for the Japan market while integrating with local financial infrastructure and vendors. Collaborate with global teams to align technical specifications with regional regulatory requirements and business objectives.

Global Settlements Associate 1

Remote · Brazil, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States

Manage the end-to-end global equity settlement process, including trade exception management and daily cash and position reconciliations. Partner with internal teams and external custodians to ensure regulatory compliance and operational efficiency through automation.

Content Marketing Manager, Crypto

Remote · Canada

You will own the content strategy and go-to-market storytelling for Alpaca's crypto and tokenization products across B2B and B2C channels. This involves collaborating with product and compliance teams to translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives for institutional partners.

Senior Product Designer, Operations Tools

Remote · Canada

The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for internal financial operations tools, ranging from user research to production code implementation. They will collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to build intuitive, AI-powered workflows and scalable design system patterns.

Senior Sales Engineer (Korean proficiency required)

Remote · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Act as the primary technical expert to support the sales process and expand the enterprise partner base within the assigned territory. This involves translating complex business requirements into technical solutions and leading end-to-end technical sales engagements.

Director of Engineering, Trading

Remote · North Carolina, United States

Build and scale an engineering organization to deliver institutional trading capabilities and a multi-asset, cross-margining platform. Define the engineering roadmap and lead the architectural evolution of trading APIs, risk, and margin engines.

Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore

Remote · Singapore

You will lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers in Singapore while architecting and delivering scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems. Additionally, you will collaborate with global stakeholders to ensure operational excellence and alignment with regional regulatory requirements.

Staff Software Engineer - New Markets Japan (JLPT N1 Fluent)

Remote · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Design and implement scalable brokerage systems and microservices tailored for the Japanese market, including integrations with local vendors and regulators. Collaborate with global teams to adapt the core framework for Japan-specific regulatory and accounting requirements.

Senior Software Engineer - New Markets Japan (JLPT N1 Fluent)

Remote · Canada

Design and implement scalable brokerage systems and microservices tailored for the Japanese market. Coordinate with local regulators and vendors to translate requirements into technical specifications for the global engineering team.

Production Support Engineer

Remote · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The Production Support Engineer will serve as the primary technical expert for enterprise customers in the APAC region, leading complex troubleshooting and resolution efforts. They will also drive root cause analysis and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and scalability of the support organization.

Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer - Identity

Remote · Brazil, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Nigeria, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Build and scale the identity platform for onboarding, identity verification, and risk management for a global fintech user base. Design reliable backend services and contribute to architectural decisions to ensure system scalability and reliability.

Senior Data Engineer

Remote · ["Remote - North America"]

Who We Are: 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 [https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/] 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. Th…

Senior Sales Engineer

On-site

Who We Are: 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, totalling over 9 million brokerage ac…

Director of Engineering, Trading

Remote · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The Director of Engineering will define and execute the engineering roadmap for Alpaca’s institutional trading platform while building and leading a high-performing engineering team. This role involves collaborating with senior leaders to evolve the platform towards a multi-asset trading architecture and delivering institutional trading capabilities.

Director of Engineering, Trading

Remote · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Director of Engineering will define and execute the engineering roadmap for Alpaca’s institutional trading platform while building and leading a high-performing team. This role involves collaborating with senior leaders to evolve the platform towards a multi-asset trading architecture and delivering institutional trading capabilities.

Lead Product Manager, Crypto

Remote · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Lead Product Manager will own and grow Alpaca's regulated crypto product surface, leading initiatives from idea to launch. This role involves deep collaboration with engineering, compliance, legal, and partnerships to ship regulated crypto infrastructure at scale.

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Remote

### Who you are - We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply - The ideal candidate is equally comfortable shadowing an operational process and architecting the backend service that replaces it - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems in production - Strong business sense and understanding of operatio…

Senior Software Engineer - Market Data

Remote · Canada, United States, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, United Kingdom

As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca. You will oversee the architecture of Alpaca's market data systems and improve the overall structure connected to various data products.

Senior Software Engineer - Market Data

Remote · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca. You will oversee the public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints.

Technical Content Marketing Manager

On-site

Who We Are: 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, totalling over 9 million brokerage…