Who We Are:
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, totalling 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.
Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Our Team Members:
We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!
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.
Your Role:
As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on Alpaca Connect, you will build the tools and services that help developers launch applications on Alpaca. You will work across TypeScript and React frontends and Go services.
You will improve partner onboarding, app management, compliance review, marketplace discovery, consent, and permissions. You will also connect these workflows to Alpaca's identity, account, trading, and market data systems.
You will work closely with Product, Design, Compliance, Support, Partnerships, and Platform teams. We are looking for someone who can turn complex requirements into secure, straightforward product experiences.
Things You Get To Do:- Build and maintain Connect experiences in TypeScript and React, with supporting Go services.
- Improve app onboarding, testing, compliance review, approval, publishing, and management.
- Turn manual support and compliance work into clear, auditable self-service workflows.
- Design APIs and integrations across Alpaca's identity, account, trading, and market data systems.
- Own features from design through production and help improve the team's technical direction.
- 5+ years of experience building production full-stack applications.
- Strong TypeScript and React skills.
- Experience with Go or another modern backend language.
- Strong SQL and relational database skills, preferably PostgreSQL.
- Experience designing REST APIs and integrating distributed services.
- Experience with OAuth, OIDC, or similar authorization systems.
- A track record of delivering secure, user-facing features end to end.
- Clear communication and sound judgment when requirements are incomplete or ambiguous.
- Experience with developer platforms, partner portals, or marketplaces.
- Experience with compliance or operational workflows in a regulated industry.
- Experience with GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, or production observability.
- Experience with financial markets, brokerage systems, or market data.
- Experience working at a startup or on a distributed remote team.
- 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.
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