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Own the product lifecycle and architecture for Alpaca’s clearing infrastructure, including brokerage, custody, ledgers, settlements, stock records, regulatory books, asset movement, and multi-currency support. Partner with engineering, operations, finance, compliance, legal, treasury, risk, and product teams to build scalable, regulator-ready systems across global asset classes. Translate complex clearing requirements into technical designs, prototypes, and production infrastructure while leading teams in a high-growth environment.

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.

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.

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and build scalable market data systems, improve API architecture, and enhance overall system performance, contributing to Alpaca's infrastructure for trading financial assets.

Manage daily crypto customer activity and trading operations, including executions, exceptions, account onboarding/KYC, cash management, and general ledger reconciliation. Support AML investigations, drive process improvements, communicate with partners, and handle ad-hoc projects within a distributed, remote team working core hours around 9am–5pm PT.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable brokerage systems and middle/back-office services (gRPC microservices, React admin UI). Lead regional recruitment and reliability, mentor engineers, act as incident commander, collaborate with global teams, troubleshoot issues, and build solutions supporting multi-language/currency markets and regulatory requirements.