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Design and build Alpaca's low-latency, high-throughput algo trading platform. Implement frontend and backend components, optimize performance, design distributed systems and data models, and develop/order and risk management systems for high availability.

The Senior Full-Stack Engineer will design, implement, and maintain systems for Trading API customers, focusing on both frontend and backend development, while leading projects and mentoring peers.

The role involves leading the engineering team to build and scale institutional trading capabilities across various asset classes while ensuring a robust architecture and technical standards.

The International Accounting Manager will manage global accounting operations, oversee multi-entity consolidations, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance accounting processes within a rapidly expanding, diverse financial services context.

Lead and run Alpaca's data governance and data security program across the lakehouse and analytics stack. Build policies, data classification, entitlement reviews, access controls, metadata/lineage, data quality standards, vendor and use-case reviews, audit evidence for SOC2/ISO27001, and support cross-border sensitive data requests while partnering with Data Engineering, Data Science, Security, Privacy, and Legal.

Lead Alpaca's data department, managing 15 team members across Platform Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science. Oversee data strategy, operational delivery, and architecture decisions, ensuring alignment with business needs and cost management.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

As a Senior AI Platform Engineer, you will build and maintain AI platform infrastructure, enabling scalable access to AI tools and workflows, ensure security and reliability, and define deployment standards.

Build and maintain analytics data models, dashboards, and reports. Use SQL (Postgres, Trino, Iceberg) and dbt to power financial metrics. Perform deep-dive analyses using SQL and Python (Jupyter, Pandas) to answer business questions, operationalize data, and improve reporting and automation.

The Motion Designer will create high-quality motion graphics for web and mobile, ensuring efficiency in code-based implementation and collaboration with design and engineering teams.