Developer APIs for stocks, options and crypto trading, investing apps, and embedded fintech.
San Mateo, California
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.
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.
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.
Remote · East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Jyväskylä, Central Finland, Finland
Design and evolve the core data platform infrastructure, including distributed query engines and lakehouse architecture. Build low-latency streaming and batch ingestion pipelines while ensuring platform reliability through monitoring and SLAs.
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.
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…
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### 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…
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.
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.