Alpaca

Who We Are: Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding. Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services. Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator. And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contributions as well as community building. The Alpaca Team: We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company. **Your Role: **We are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to lead the vision for the transformation layer of our data platform. This platform integrates data from transactional databases backing core Alpaca applications, API logs, CRMs, payment systems, and marketing platforms. We process hundreds of millions of events daily, a number that is rapidly growing as we onboard new customers. We prioritize open-source solutions and use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the foundation of our data infrastructure. Our transformation layer, powered by dbt running through the Trino query engine, builds data models that are delivered to end users via BI tools, reports, and reverse ETL. Our stakeholders range from finance to operations, customer success, and the executive team, necessitating varying data availability (from monthly to near-real-time) and integrity (up to cent-level precision). You will be working alongside our Data Engineers who drive the ingress of the data and the infrastructure of the Lakehouse and related services, and Data Scientists who consume the data models and augment them with new features. Our team is 100% distributed and remote. Responsibilities: Develop scalable patterns in the transformation layer to support consistent BI tools integration across business verticals. Ensure data discoverability and maintain high standards of change management, including model testing and data monitoring, as Alpaca’s products evolve. Seamlessly integrate the Lakehouse with BI tooling to create repeatable ways of surfacing metrics to end users. Set a high standard for development practices, ensuring quality in new data models and their orchestration. Collaborate closely with finance, operations, customer success, and marketing teams to meet data modeling needs. Must-Haves: 3+ years of experience in data engineering or data analytics, focusing on the transformation component of the ELT process. Experience building scalable transformation layers, preferably through formalized SQL models (e.g., dbt). Experience in Python for transformations beyond SQL. Experience with CI/CD and code version control. Strong hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., Postgres, Iceberg), including query optimization. Ability to adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment and tailor solutions to evolving business needs. Experience with ETL technologies for ingestion (e.g., Airbyte) and orchestration (e.g., Airflow). Experience working in a cloud environment (AWS or GCP). If you're passionate about analytics engineering and thrive in a dynamic startup environment, we'd love to hear from you! How We Take Care of You: Competitive Salary & Stock Options Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care.  Inter

Who We Are: Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding. Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services. Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator. And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contributions as well as community building. The Alpaca Team: We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company. Your Role: Alpaca is a next generation securities broker for algo traders.  With a clear vision and the right timing, we are a growing FinTech startup tapping into a new market in retail trading.  Our target users are tech savvy and analytical problem solvers who appreciate a modern technology stack and an innovative business model that helps to empower them to move beyond old school financial services. We look for engineers who think the same way. Your job is to build Alpaca's algo trading platform to satisfy our users who expect high quality and performance from their brokerage service.  This opportunity is similar to joining AWS or Heroku in their early days,  designing and architecting our platform by wearing many different hats in our small team. As an experienced engineer, you will write tons of code and make critical decisions about delivering the best experience to our customers.  This certainly requires deep knowledge in both frontend and backend, databases and distributed systems, as well as broad experience from low to high level in CPU-level hardware for high throughput, robust concurrency system design, abstract distributed system architecture for high availability and object-oriented data modeling with long term growth in mind. Joining an early stage startup, the payoff to this highly demanding environment will be worth the effort. You must have previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading). Requirements: Strong, experienced software engineer with lead experience is preferred Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python Low latency and high throughput optimization Experience with messaging queues and message brokers Analytical data-oriented mindset and skills Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems and concurrency control System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS) Nice to have: Algo trading experience (either professional or personal) FIX protocol knowledge Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking Financial market (exchange, broker-dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge Experience with financial ledgers Statistical and quantitative analysis skills Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP) Experience with Docker and Kubernetes How We Take Care of You: Competitive Salary & Stock Options Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental h

Who We Are: Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding. Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services. Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator. And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contributions as well as community building. The Alpaca Team: We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company. Your Role: As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets. The Ledger Team is responsible for building a modern ledger system, whose purpose is to maintain a complete and correct view of everything that has ever happened in every account. From a business perspective, the ledger provides a structured and organized system for recording and aggregating transactional data. It plays a crucial role in supporting financial reporting, decision-making, and compliance. From an engineering perspective, the ledger serves as the source of truth for many services in the Alpaca ecosystem. For this role, we are seeking an experienced engineer who is obsessed with delivering defect-free solutions, has proven experience architecting and building at scale, and who is not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals in cooperation with a cross-functional team. Things You Get To Do: Collaborate with internal stakeholders–including finance, operations, and product teams–to deliver high-impact features/projects Build backend systems/components with integrity, maintainability, scalability, and stability in mind Own the delivery of high-visibility features/projects, from design to deployment Collaborate with engineering teams to improve the health of Alpaca’s systems Who You Are (Must-Haves): A seasoned engineer, with 5+ years experience working on systems at scale Obsessed with performant, defect-free, maintainable code A strong problem solver with a proactive mindset A collaborator who is capable of creating alignment with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike Comfortable working heads-down or tag-teaming problems Strong coding skills, preferably in Go Ability to debug issues or, better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely Experience with IDLs (e.g., protobuf), RPC frameworks (e.g., gRPC), cloud platforms (e.g., GCP), and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)  Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):   Experience in the financial services or accounting industry Experience with distributed systems/databases Experience with event driven systems and messaging brokers (e.g., Redpanda) Experience working remotely Experience working at a startup   How We Take Care of You: Competitive Salary & Stock Options Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care.  Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.    New Hire Home-Office Set

As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets. The clearing team is responsible for building a modern clearing and settlements platform. Alpaca is a participant in a market where over two trillion dollars worth of equities need to be cleared and settled on a daily basis. We are tackling the industry with a modern approach on building highly scalable, event driven systems where resilient engineering, scale, and performance can have critical advantages.  We have exciting plans for the team; self-clearing is just the first step in building end-to-end financial infrastructure as we continue to prove ourselves as an innovative market leader and a core component for our growth across global markets and asset classes. We are looking for senior engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals. An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices are also great assets we actively look for. Things You Get To Do: Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on Work on self-clearing and help us join the elite club of self-clearing brokers Implement backend services and work on designing an architecture where reliability matters Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general Maintain good software quality and test coverage Participate in code reviews Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature Who You Are (Must-Haves): Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset Excellent communication and collaboration skills The ability to work independently and as part of a team A preference for simple and elegant solutions At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices Strong coding skills, preferably in Go Ability to write clean, well tested, and maintainable code Experience with domain driven design and event driven design Ability to debug issues or better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform Experience with messaging queues and message brokers Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL   Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):   Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of clearing and settlement processes Experience with DTCC integration Experience working remotely Experience working at a startup DevOps mindset is an asset How We Take Care of You: Competitive Salary & Stock Options Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care.  Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.    New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

Who We Are: Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding. Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services. Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator. And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open-source contributions as well as community building. The Alpaca Team: We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company. Your Role: As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets. The identity team is responsible for building a modern platform for onboarding users, verifying their identity, evaluating risk, and managing their trading accounts. These persons, businesses and accounts are foundational components of the Alpaca system, and we need to build new capabilities while achieving very high automation rates. We are expanding the platform to handle identity verification on a global basis, and to support our growing set of account types. We are looking for senior engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals. An understanding of cloud-based modern architecture, infrastructure, and orchestration practices are also great assets we actively look for. Things You Get To Do: Contribute to a core system that millions of end users will rely on Help us create a global financial identity verification and risk management service Implement backend services and work on designing an architecture where reliability matters Take ownership of tasks, identify and address technical challenges proactively, and propose innovative solutions Contribute to architectural decisions, offering insights and suggestions for designing scalable and reliable systems Work with other teams to improve how our systems interact with theirs and improve Alpaca systems in general Maintain good software quality and test coverage Participate in code reviews Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature Who You Are (Must-Haves): Strong problem-solving skills paired with a proactive mindset Ability to turn business requirements into a flexible implementation model Excellent communication and collaboration skills Ability to work independently and as part of a team A preference for simple and elegant solutions At least 3 years of experience working on systems at scale Proven experience in building and maintaining microservices Strong coding skills, preferably in Go Ability to write clean, well tested, and maintainable code Experience with domain driven design and event driven design Ability to debug issues or better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Goog