Location: United Kingdom; Ireland; Romania; Cyprus; Malta; Canada
Workplace: Remote
BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE
Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
THE TEAM
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Kraken's Market Surveillance function is responsible for detecting, investigating and reporting market abuse across our regulated trading venues, spanning spot crypto markets, crypto futures, tokenised equities, OTC markets and consumer trading. As our licensing footprint and product range grow, so does the scale and complexity of the surveillance programme behind them.
We are hiring several Senior Compliance Associates to carry out day to day surveillance across our markets, investigate what that surveillance uncovers, and help us build the programme out as the business grows.
THE OPPORTUNITY
- Review and disposition surveillance alerts across our regulated markets, and record the reasoning behind each decision clearly enough that someone else can follow it.
- Carry out analytical reviews that begin with trade and order data rather than with a system-generated alert.
- Investigate escalated behaviour end to end: gather the data, reconstruct what happened, and write it up for presentation to senior compliance stakeholders.
- Assess referrals raised from across the business and externally, and take forward the ones that warrant it.
- Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports.
- Produce management information and regulatory reporting for the entities we cover.
- Contribute to surveillance platform and tooling work, including bringing new products and data sources into scope and testing that detection behaves as intended.
- Use AI and automation tools to speed up evidence-gathering and case reconstruction, with human judgement over the final call.
WHAT YOU BRING
- At least 2 years experience in trade surveillance, market abuse investigation or trading conduct inside a regulated firm, such as an exchange, broker-dealer, trading venue, bank or comparable regulated trading business.
- Working knowledge of the core market abuse typologies, for example spoofing, layering, wash trading, insider dealing, front running and ramping.
- Experience reviewing and dispositioning surveillance alerts, and writing up what you found to a standard others can rely on.
- Clear, evidence-first written communication. Your case files and escalations will sometimes be read by auditors and regulators without you in the room to explain them.
- Comfort using generative AI and other automation tools to improve the speed and quality of investigative work, while maintaining the oversight that regulated casework requires.
- Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Romania or Canada, with fluency in English.
NICE TO HAVES
- Exposure to crypto-asset markets is welcomed but not required.
- Hands-on use of a surveillance platform such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus or NICE Actimize.
- SQL or a similar query tool for evidence-gathering.
- Experience drafting suspicious transaction and order reports or suspicious activity reports.
- Electronic communications surveillance experience.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
OUR COMMITMENT
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgeable about crypto.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
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Location: Remote - North America
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 the Crypto Compliance Compliance Analyst, you’ll partner with the Chief Compliance Officer of Alpaca Crypto LLC to support and execute the anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance operations for our digital asset platform. This role is critical to mitigating risk, conducting transaction monitoring, and ensuring that Alpaca's crypto offerings operate securely and in full accordance with regulatory standards.
The Compliance Department team is 100% distributed and remote. This role will report directly to the Chief Compliance Officer, Alpaca Crypto LLC.
Key Responsibilities:
Transaction Monitoring:
Perform daily review and disposition of transaction monitoring alerts (fiat and crypto) to identify unusual or suspicious activity.
Investigate & Report:
Conduct deep-dive investigations into complex user accounts and blockchain transactions. Draft high-quality narratives and prepare/file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) with appropriate regulatory bodies (e.g., FinCEN).
Blockchain Forensics:
Utilize on-chain analytics tools (e.g., Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic) to trace cryptocurrency flows, identify high-risk wallet interactions, and assess illicit finance risks.
KYC / EDD:
Assist with escalated Know Your Customer (KYC) / Know Your Business (KYB) reviews, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), and OFAC sanctions screening.
Rule Tuning & Optimization:
Collaborate with the CCO and compliance engineering to refine and tune transaction monitoring rules, ensuring false positives are minimized while capturing actual risks.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Work closely with customer support, engineering, and product teams to integrate compliance controls seamlessly into the Alpaca API ecosystem.
What You Need (Qualifications):
Experience:
2–5 years of experience in AML, transaction monitoring, or financial crimes compliance within a cryptocurrency exchange, fintech, or traditional financial institution.
Crypto Knowledge:
Strong understanding of blockchain technology, digital assets, and the specific AML risks associated with the crypto ecosystem.
Regulatory Grasp:
Solid understanding of BSA/AML regulations, OFAC sanctions, and FinCEN guidance regarding virtual currency.
Analytical Skills:
Proven ability to analyze complex financial data, connect the dots across different platforms, and write clear, concise investigative narratives.
Tools:
Hands-on experience with blockchain analytics tools and traditional fiat transaction monitoring vendors.
Autonomy:
High level of self-motivation and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, 100% remote startup environment.
Bonus:
Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CAMS, CGSS, or crypto-specific certifications like CCAS/Chainalysis Reactor Certification) are a strong plus
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: North America - Remote
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:
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing fintech company during a pivotal stage of growth. As the Senior Accountant, you will play a key role in strengthening and scaling our accounting operations, financial reporting, and internal controls.
Our Accounting & Finance team is fully remote and distributed. This role reports directly to the Assistant Controller and partners cross-functionally to support the company's continued growth and regulatory compliance.
What You'll Do:
Prepare and document journal entries in accordance with GAAP and company policies.
Own and help optimize the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and process automation initiatives.
Prepare accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
Support the development and enhancement of internal financial reporting and reporting distribution processes.
Assist with the annual financial statement audit by preparing supporting documentation and responding to auditor requests.
Coordinate with the parent company on tax documentation and information requests.
Operate in a multi-entity environment, being a key resource to adjacent teams within the organization
Assist with weekly reserve computations and related reporting.
Develop, document, implement, and maintain accounting policies and procedures.
Perform ad hoc financial analysis, reporting, and special projects as needed.
Qualifications (required):
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
5–7 years of progressive accounting experience, preferably within financial services.
Strong knowledge of accounting principles and financial reporting.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills.
Exceptional attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy and organization.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment while working independently in a remote setting.
Ability to adapt to changing business needs and regulatory requirements.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with a team-first mindset.
Demonstrated ownership, initiative, and a willingness to take on new challenges.
Qualifications
(
preferred):
CPA designation.
Experience working for a broker-dealer, clearing firm, or other regulated financial services organization.
Experience with Netsuite
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: North America - Remote
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.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and technically strong
Accounting Senior Manager
to lead our cryptocurrency accounting operations and support complex accounting matters across the organization.
This is a high-impact, hands-on role that combines ownership of the crypto accounting function with broader technical accounting responsibilities, audit leadership, and internal controls development.
The ideal candidate is comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment, navigating complex accounting and regulatory requirements, and partnering cross-functionally with business leaders, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and external auditors.
This individual will play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and scalability of our accounting processes as the business grows and evolves.
Key Responsibilities
Digital Assets Accounting & Financial Reporting
Own the end-to-end accounting function for the company's crypto and tokenization-related activities, including month-end and quarter-end close processes, reconciliation review, journal entry reviews, and financial reporting.
Develop, maintain, and enhance accounting policies, procedures, and controls related to cryptocurrency transactions, digital assets, and associated business activities.
Partner closely with crypto business leadership to understand new products, transaction flows, and business developments, ensuring appropriate accounting treatment and financial reporting.
Oversee accounting for crypto-related transactions, including digital asset holdings, transfers, fees, settlements, and other relevant activities.
Coordinate with Finance, Legal, Compliance, and other stakeholders to support regulatory reporting requirements applicable to the crypto business.
Drive process improvements, automation, and scalable accounting solutions to support growth in crypto transaction volumes and business complexity.
Serve as the primary accounting point of contact for crypto-related initiatives, providing proactive guidance on accounting implications and operational considerations.
Audit Ownership & Regulatory Support
Lead and manage the external financial statement audit process for the crypto business, serving as the primary liaison with external auditors.
Coordinate audit planning, prepare supporting schedules and documentation, resolve accounting questions, and ensure timely completion of audit deliverables.
Partner with internal stakeholders to address audit findings, strengthen accounting processes, and implement appropriate remediation measures.
Support regulatory examinations, inquiries, and reporting requirements related to the crypto business, in coordination with Legal and Compliance.
Maintain audit-ready documentation and ensure accounting processes are supported by effective internal controls.
Technical Accounting & Complex Transactions
Serve as a key technical accounting resource across the broader organization, researching and evaluating complex or nonroutine transactions under US GAAP.
Prepare technical accounting memoranda documenting accounting conclusions, relevant guidance, and financial statement implications.
Partner with Finance and business leaders to evaluate the accounting impact of new products, strategic initiatives, contracts, and unique business arrangements.
Support accounting assessments for complex topics, which may include revenue recognition, equity transactions, investments, business combinations, digital assets, and other emerging accounting matters.
Monitor evolving accounting standards and regulatory developments, assess their impact on the company, and support implementation of new requirements.
Collaborate with external advisors and auditors to resolve technical accounting matters and ensure consistent application of accounting policies.
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA strongly preferred.
8-10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including experience in public accounting and/or a complex corporate accounting environment.
Strong understanding of US GAAP, technical accounting research, and financial reporting requirements.
Experience managing month-end close processes, preparing financial statements, and coordinating external audits.
Experience with cryptocurrency, digital assets, financial services, fintech, or similarly complex transaction environments.
Demonstrated ability to independently research, analyze, and document complex accounting matters.
Experience designing, implementing, or improving accounting processes and internal controls.
Strong project management skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and work across multiple teams.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate complex accounting topics into clear, actionable guidance for non-accounting stakeholders.
Comfortable working both strategically and hands-on in a dynamic, high-growth environment.
Preferred
CPA with a combination of Big Four or national public accounting firm experience and industry experience.
Direct experience with cryptocurrency accounting, including digital asset transactions, reconciliations, custody arrangements, and related reporting requirements.
Experience supporting regulated financial services or crypto-related entities.
Experience leading financial statement audits and working directly with external auditors on complex accounting matters.
Familiarity with SOC 1 and/or SOC 2 readiness, internal control frameworks, and audit evidence requirements.
Experience implementing accounting automation, improving financial systems, or scaling accounting operations.
Experience partnering with senior leadership on new products, business initiatives, or complex commercial arrangements.
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: Remote (Canada)
Workplace: Remote
BUILD SOMETHING PEOPLE LOVE
Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator. The company offers a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $169 billion in assets under administration. The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
We're proud of what we've built — and we're just getting started. Read our Culture Manual https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/culture and learn more about how we work https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/careers.
ABOUT THE TEAM
As a Specialist, Counterparty Credit Risk, reporting to the Manager, Counterparty Credit Risk you will join our Credit Risk Operations team to help build and operationalize a centralized counterparty credit risk function. This team sits at the intersection of risk management, operations, capital markets, finance, treasury, and product. It draws on deep brokerage and credit experience. In this role, you will own the end-to-end counterparty credit risk assessment and ongoing monitoring process. You will work closely with Treasury, Finance, Market Risk, Legal, Product, and the Securities Lending team to ensure every counterparty is rigorously evaluated and that exposure remains within our risk appetite.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our counterparty risk framework depends on knowing exactly who we're dealing with, and how much risk we're taking on with each of them. You'll own the risk processes from the first credit review to ongoing monitoring, while helping build the processes and framework the function runs on. Because the function is growing, a lot of it will be yours to shape.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own and improve the procedures for the counterparty credit risk assessment processes while ensuring consistency, scalability, and auditability.
- Conduct and compile comprehensive credit assessments and provide detailed written recommendations for new and existing counterparties, incorporating regulatory financial statement analysis and other factors to determine credit limits.
- Monitor concentration limits and stress testing results within our platform ensuring exposures remain within approved thresholds and flag emerging risks early and with recommended action.
- Assist in drafting, maintaining, and enforcing counterparty credit risk policies, credit limit framework, and procedures.
- Work across different teams in a fast-paced environment, supporting both front office and risk development. Make well-reasoned decisions with incomplete information and state the assumptions and risks behind them. Help build lasting positive relationships with our counterparties.
SKILLS YOU BRING
- 1–3+ years experience in counterparty credit risk, credit analysis or a relevant credit risk management role in an investment dealer or brokerage environment
- Working knowledge of broker-dealer regulatory capital, including risk-adjusted capital and net excess capital, and how to interpret Form 1 and FOCUS filings.
- Preference given to individuals who are pursuing the CFA, CPA or FRM program.
WHO YOU ARE
- Relentlessly pursues root causes and is willing to continuously expand their knowledge and competencies. Acts without being told what to do and is ready to “roll up their sleeves” and build solutions from the ground up. Takes full ownership of work and proactively identifies risks before they materialize.
- Plans, organizes, and prioritizes effectively across multiple concurrent priorities.
- Distills complex credit and risk concepts into clear, actionable recommendations for any audience.
WHY WEALTHSIMPLE?
🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year*
✈️ 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year*
👥 Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS
🌎 We are a hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America. The people are one of the best parts of working here: you'll collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who are deeply committed to doing great work.
*Unlimited paid sick days, Wellness Days and the 90 day away program do not apply to certain roles.
ICYMI
Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple: We move quickly and build thoughtfully. That means we're always looking for better ways to work — whether that's new tools, AI, or rethinking how we approach a problem. We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect curiosity and a willingness to evolve alongside the products we're building.
Inclusion Statement: We're building products for a diverse world, and we need a diverse team to do it well. We strongly encourage applications from everyone, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Accessibility Statement: We're committed to an accessible hiring experience. If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please let us know — we'll work with you to make sure you have what you need. We also welcome any feedback on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.
AI in Hiring: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our team but don't replace human judgment – all final hiring decisions are made by people. If you have questions about how your data is used, reach out to us.
Location: Remote - Europe, Americas
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:
Your Role:
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build the developer platform that agents and partners use to integrate and build on. You evolve Alpaca’s MCP servers, tools, and skills, and you build the APIs behind them.
You play a central role to define the architecture that provides the fastest time to market for integrators. Builders who embed Alpaca for their end users all use this surface.
This is a hands-on role. You will lead through architecture, code, design reviews, and mentorship, and you will ship the first version yourself. You will partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Platform Engineering teams.
Things You Get To Do:
Design and build Alpaca’s agent-facing developer platform: MCP servers, tools, skills, and the APIs behind them.
Evolve that platform as the MCP protocol and connector, plugin, and skill standards change.
Build new APIs that make trading and account capabilities available to apps and agents.
Decide which components the platform renders, so developers and partners build apps faster from shared building blocks.
Keep Alpaca’s execution model current with the MCP protocol and with connector, plugin, and skill standards, and translate what changes into the application architecture of the developer platform.
Own production reliability and quality for the services you build.
Mentor engineers and raise the quality of design and implementation in this area.
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
5+ years of software engineering experience, with ownership of production systems that other developers use.
Shipped a developer-facing API, SDK, or platform as a primary contributor.
Enough MCP architecture to work with stateless and stateful behavior, and experience building to MCP, or to connector, plugin, or skill standards, as they have changed in production.
Strong API design, including schemas, compatibility, and responses other developers can rely on.
Proficiency in Python or TypeScript, and a willingness to work primarily in Go.
Strong architectural judgment, with a record of shipping while requirements are still being defined.
Clear communication with engineers, product, compliance, and risk partners.
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
Experience shipping developer-facing tools, SDKs, or MCP servers.
Experience building agents with a framework such as LangChain.
Experience or understanding of financial markets
Production experience with Go.
Experience working at a startup.
Experience working remotely.
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: Remote - Americas, Europe
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:
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and ship autonomous execution for agents acting on Alpaca accounts. The same platform has to serve external algorithmic traders, partners building products on Alpaca, operators, and partners who embed Alpaca so their end users’ agents can act.
You will design and ship account-level policy and the checks on the path in front of our trading and risk systems. You will work with the engineers who own our MCP servers, tools, and skills, and with the team that owns authentication and authorization. You will help Product, Compliance, and Risk shape the control model, and you will ship the implementation.
This is a hands-on role. You will not manage people directly. You will lead through architecture, code, design reviews, and mentorship, and you will ship the first version yourself. You will partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, and the team that owns identity and authorization to define the control model. Broker risk controls stay with the teams that own them.
Things You Get To Do:
Lead the application architecture for safe agent execution, from the tool call through to our trading systems.
Design and build the account-level policy and guardrails for external agent actions.
Own the services that evaluate those rules on the path into our trading systems.
Define how agent-initiated trading actions behave, with the engineers who own our tools and skills.
Keep Alpaca’s execution model current with the MCP protocol and with connector, plugin, and skill standards, and translate what changes into account policy, guardrails, and trading actions.
Partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, and the identity platform to define the control model and ship it.
Own production reliability for the policy and guardrail services.
Review designs across teams and guide the technical decisions where agent actions meet brokerage systems.
Mentor engineers and raise the quality of design and implementation in this area.
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
5+ years of software engineering experience, building and operating production backend systems. Evidence of scope and ownership matters more than a strict year count.
Shipped autonomous execution: software that took actions under an explicit policy without a person approving each action, and that rejected or stopped actions outside that policy.
Designed and implemented account-level policy in an application: durable rules for what a caller may do, enforced on the action path, with an audit of the decision.
Enough MCP architecture to work with stateless and stateful behavior, and experience building to MCP, or to connector, plugin, or skill standards, as they have changed in production.
Able to define, with Product, Compliance, and Risk, which account rules allow an unattended action.
Proficiency in Python or TypeScript, and a willingness to work primarily in Go.
Strong architectural judgment, with a record of shipping while requirements are still being defined.
Clear communication with engineers, product, compliance, and risk partners.
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
Experience with agent identity and authorization, such as OAuth, tokens, scopes, and delegated access, and comfort partnering with the team that owns that platform.
Experience shipping developer-facing tools, SDKs, or MCP servers.
Experience building agents with a framework such as LangChain.
Experience or understanding of financial markets.
Experience working at a startup.
Experience working remotely.
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: Remote - North America - Europe
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 Product Engineer on the Acquisition team, you will build the tools and services that help developers launch applications on Alpaca. That covers everything from how accounts and identity are set up to the APIs and SDKs partners integrate with. You will work mostly in Go services, with some TypeScript and React.
You will help shape the plan as well as deliver it, and you will own the onboarding experience while dedicated teams support with domain expertise. Exciting challenges wait in central parts of the onboarding process, such as identity, accounts and payments. You will work closely with respective teams to design APIs, challenge existing assumptions, and ship together.
Things You Get To Do:
Design and build APIs, SDKs, and Go services that let partners build experiences on Alpaca
Own partner journeys from first sign-up through a working integration
Contribute across teams' codebases on identity, accounts, payments, and onboarding, and collaborate with those teams on API design
Turn ambiguous business goals into actionable plans, and help shape the roadmap for a new area
Use data and partner feedback to understand where developers get stuck and what to build next
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
5+ years building production backend services and APIs in Go or another modern backend language
Experience designing REST APIs, and strong SQL and relational database skills, preferably PostgreSQL
Able to ship frontend work in TypeScript and React when needed
Experience owning a customer or developer journey end to end, such as onboarding, sign-up, activation, or an integration, and able to speak to the business outcome, not just the code
A track record of contributing to codebases owned by other teams and driving cross-team work to completion
Experience with OAuth, OIDC, or similar authorization systems
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
Experience building products for external developers, such as public APIs, SDKs, or developer documentation
Experience with developer platforms, partner portals, or marketplaces
Experience with multi-tenant account or identity models
Experience in fintech, payments, identity verification (KYC), or other regulated industries
Experience on a growth team or at an early-stage company, shipping whatever it takes to move an outcome
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: Remote
About the company
Hi, we're Ondo Finance. Our mission is to provide institutional-grade, blockchain-enabled investment products and services. We have both a technology arm that develops decentralized finance technology, and an asset management arm that creates and manages tokenized funds. We were the first company to tokenize exposure to US Treasuries, and have since expanded into several other assets. We are also focused on incubating protocols that can support both tokenized real-world assets and traditional crypto.
Founded by folks from Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Team, we’re backed by some of the best investors in the world including Founders Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Tiger Global, and more. We are currently the leaders in the space in terms of AUM and are well capitalized to continue growing the firm. We're fully remote, with team members across the U.S.
About the Role
We're looking for a Compliance Manager to lead and strengthen our monitoring and investigations program across both fiat and on-chain activity. You'll own transaction monitoring, secondary market and trade surveillance, investigations, and regulatory reporting, and you'll be a key partner to Legal, Product, Engineering, and Operations as we scale.
This role suits a hands-on investigator who's equally comfortable tracing funds through a blockchain explorer, analyzing trading patterns for manipulation, and writing a SAR narrative that holds up to regulatory scrutiny.
Responsibilities
Own the day-to-day transaction monitoring program for fiat and digital asset flows, including alert review, escalation, and disposition.
Design, tune, and document monitoring rules and scenarios based on the firm's risk assessment, typologies, and emerging threats.
Use blockchain analytics tools to assess wallet exposure, counterparty risk, and illicit-finance indicators such as sanctions, mixers, darknet markets, scams, and ransomware.
Track alert volumes, false-positive rates, and SLAs, and drive improvements in efficiency and coverage.
Build and run surveillance for trading activity on primary and secondary markets, including on-chain transfers, DEX/CEX activity, and OTC flows.
Detect and investigate potential market abuse, including wash trading, spoofing, layering, front-running, pump-and-dump schemes, and insider trading.
Work with Engineering and Data teams on surveillance tooling, data pipelines, and alert logic.
Maintain reporting procedures, quality control checks, and audit-ready documentation.
Support regulatory exams, independent audits, and responses to regulator inquiries.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in financial crimes compliance, with significant hands-on work in investigations, AML/BSA, and transaction monitoring.
Demonstrated experience with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis (Reactor, KYT), TRM Labs, or Elliptic, and the ability to trace funds independently on-chain.
Strong working knowledge of the BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, FinCEN guidance, and OFAC sanctions requirements.
A track record of writing high-quality SAR narratives and investigation reports.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with large datasets and spot anomalous patterns.
Excellent written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to handle sensitive matters with discretion.
Nice to Have
Experience with trade surveillance or market abuse detection at a broker-dealer, exchange, ATS, or digital asset trading venue.
Familiarity with securities regulations (SEC, FINRA) and how they apply to tokenized assets or digital securities.
Experience building or scaling a monitoring program at a high-growth fintech or crypto company.
Experience managing or mentoring analysts.
Certifications such as CAMS, CCAS, CFE, or CCI.
What we offer
Competitive compensation including but not limited to salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) — We are well-funded and believe that great talent deserves great compensation.
Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO).
Remote-first team across many countries — You will be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices.
A+ colleagues — Our team includes alumni from: Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, Uniswap.
Best-in-class investors — We are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund and Coinbase Ventures.
Location: Remote
About the company
Hi, we're Ondo Finance. Our mission is to provide institutional-grade, blockchain-enabled investment products and services. We have both a technology arm that develops decentralized finance technology, and an asset management arm that creates and manages tokenized funds. We were the first company to tokenize exposure to US Treasuries, and have since expanded into several other assets. We are also focused on incubating protocols that can support both tokenized real-world assets and traditional crypto.
Founded by folks from Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Team, we’re backed by some of the best investors in the world including Founders Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Tiger Global, and more. We are currently the leaders in the space in terms of AUM and are well capitalized to continue growing the firm. We're fully remote, with team members across the U.S.
About the Role
We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Compliance Senior Associate to join our Compliance team. This role supports the Firm's regulatory compliance program by assisting with e-communication surveillance, due diligence, risk assessments, regulatory examinations, and governance processes. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in AML/BSA, KYC, and OFAC compliance within financial services, and is comfortable working across a broad range of compliance functions in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
Assist with the Firm's e-communication archiving reviews to monitor and ensure adherence to firm policies.
Provide input on and help complete Due Diligence Questionnaires (DDQs) and Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
Complete weekly, monthly, and quarterly compliance checklists in a timely and accurate manner.
Help maintain and update the Firm's compliance manual to reflect current policies and regulatory requirements.
Assist in the preparation of risk assessments, annual reviews, and vendor reviews.
Support the Firm's responses and documentation requests related to regulatory inquiries, third-party examinations, and internal audits.
Help maintain governance around relevant committees, including scheduling, preparing materials, and documenting meeting notes.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in KYC, AML, or compliance operations within financial services or fintech.
Deep knowledge of AML/BSA regulatory requirements, risk-based customer due diligence, and OFAC sanctions compliance.
Strong ability to analyze situations for compliance and business risk, and to implement effective solutions to address and mitigate such risk.
Excellent organizational skills with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and interact with regulators, auditors, and internal stakeholders.
Preferred: 2+ years of prior financial services compliance experience within a Broker-Dealer (B/D) or Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
What we offer
Competitive compensation including but not limited to salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) — We are well-funded and believe that great talent deserves great compensation.
Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO).
Remote-first team across many countries — You will be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices.
A+ colleagues — Our team includes alumni from: Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, Uniswap.
Best-in-class investors — We are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund and Coinbase Ventures.
Location: Remote - Americas
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:
Alpaca is seeking a Senior Cashiering Operations Associate to own client money movement across ACH, domestic and international wires, RTP, checks, and internal journals.
This role is accountable for timely, accurate, and compliant cash processing, with a strong mandate to strengthen operational controls, reduce risk, and drive process quality. You will operate with a high degree of independence, exercise judgment on complex and high-risk transactions, and serve as a key partner to custodians and banking partners. The ideal candidate brings deep money-movement expertise, a control-first mindset, and clear ownership of outcomes in a fast-paced fintech environment.
Ops Control Framework & Oversight
Own and continuously strengthen controls across money movement workflows, ensuring adherence to firm policies, regulatory expectations, and data privacy standards
Review, validate, and approve client money movement requests (ACH, wires, RTP, checks, journals) in accordance with firm policies
Process and release transactions accurately and within established SLAs
Reconcile daily cash movements, deposits, and settlement activity to ensure accurate posting
Monitor and resolve exceptions, returns, rejects, and transaction discrepancies
Serve as a primary operational point of contact for custodians and banking partners
Prepare and review daily and monthly operational reports, including transaction coding oversight
Maintain accurate documentation and case tracking in Salesforce and internal systems
Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, internal controls, and data privacy standards
Identify operational risks and escalate suspicious or high-risk transactions appropriately
Support audits, reporting requirements, and special projects as needed
Partner with Operations, Compliance, Risk, and Technology to design and implement process improvements
Train and coach internal teams; contribute to playbooks, SOPs, and onboarding for cashiering workflows
What You Bring
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or related field — or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience in financial services, brokerage operations, banking, or cashiering
Direct experience processing money movements (ACH, wires, checks, journals, RTP preferred)
Experience interacting with custodians, clearing firms, or correspondent banks
Strong command of operational risk and fraud controls
High level of attention to detail and accuracy
Clear, confident written and verbal communication with internal stakeholders and external partners
Ability to work independently, prioritize competing demands, and elevate issues with context and recommendations
Series 7 or additional FINRA licenses
Preferred Experience
Portfolio accounting or broker-dealer systems
Experience in fintech or high-growth environments
Prior ownership of SOPs, control frameworks, or audit support for cash/money movement operations
Experience mentoring or training operations team members
Core Competencies
Detail Orientation
Action & Ownership Mindset
Strong Risk Awareness
Clear Communication
Responsiveness & Follow-Through
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Confidentiality & Professional Judgment
Alignment with Alpaca’s company tenets
Stay Curious
Have Empathy
Be Accountable
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: Remote - Americas
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 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 daily .
The payments team is responsible for building and maintaining a modern global payments and treasury platform. Operating in an industry in which money movement is a critical component, we adopt a modern technology focused approach with highly scalable, event-driven systems. Resilient engineering, technical and operational scalability, and system integrity are crucial to our success.
We have ambitious plans to build a seamlessly integrated comprehensive treasury platform into an industry leading end-to-end financial infrastructure on a global scale. Alpaca has and will continue to prove ourselves as an innovative market leader and this team is a core component of 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.
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
Experience with client facing APIs
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
Experience with distributed systems design
Previous experience with or understanding of payment rails and the payment lifecycle
Experience with double entry accounting and financial ledgers
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):g
Previous experience in the financial industry or knowledge of payments initiations
Experience with financial reconciliation systems
Experience with or understanding of ISO20022 financial standard
Experience working remotely
Experience working at a startup, exchange, brokerage, market maker, or hedge fund
DevOps mindset is an asset
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: Remote - North America - South America
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, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining frontend applications and backend services that form the foundation of user experience at Alpaca and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.
As part of a focused and specialized engineering team, you will be responsible for the user experience and product development for Internal Tools customers, encompassing both the frontend trading dashboards and backend systems that power Internal Tools product features like elite, high-yield cash, paper accounts, and more. Working closely with our users and internal stakeholders, we specialize in delivering high-quality end-to-end solutions across the full suite of frontend and backend systems at Alpaca.
We’re looking for someone who brings deep frontend and backend expertise, understands how all parts of the stack work together, enjoys mentoring others, and thrives in a culture of curiosity and continuous improvement. Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team, you’ll build elegant and robust systems and services to deliver innovative product features across the stack.
Things You Get To Do:
Play a pivotal role in architecting and developing software solutions across the full stack that push the boundaries of technology
Work closely with cross-functional teams and dive deep into the backend systems and infrastructure that power financial markets
Contribute to API design and product features within our ecosystem.
Own the delivery of high-visibility features/projects, from design to deployment
Mentor peers and influence the technical strategy of our company
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
5+ years of experience using a modern systems programming language like Golang, C++, or Rust
3+ years of experience in frontend development with TypeScript/React
Proficient with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
Proficient in HTML and CSS frameworks such as TailwindCSS
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Proven track record of building user-facing features end-to-end
Experience with REST APIs and WebSockets best practices
Attention to detail and an appreciation for design aesthetics
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
Algo trading experience (either professional or personal)
Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
Experience or understanding of financial markets
Experience working at a startup
Experience working remotely
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: Remote Americas
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 software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form Alpaca's foundation and empower millions of users who trade 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 people, 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, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are 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 is also a great asset we are actively looking 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 Google Cloud Platform
Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
Experience in the finance industry
Experience with financial identity management, e.g. KYC
Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
Experience integrating with external services
Experience working remotely
Experience working at a startup
DevOps mindset is an asset
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: Remote - Canada, Remote - India
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:
We're seeking a Senior Brokerage Operations Associate (Canada). An experienced individual contributor who has lived dealer, clearing, and custody reality and designs every process as if manual work is temporary.
You turn CIRO-aligned operating requirements into scalable, automated, auditable workflows that Product and Engineering can build against. You partner closely with the ACCC President / UDP, Compliance, Product, Engineering, and global Ops. Someone who influences through expertise, crisp documentation, and decision logs, not through a team.
Success is measured by launch readiness, STP and control quality, registered-account / tax operability, and systems others can run and not by headcount or heroic spreadsheet ops.
What you'll walk into:
You won't be starting from zero. You'll be owning live problems:
Getting ready to open: figure out how we open and maintain accounts, process trades, and hold client cash and securities on day one. Build that for ACCC rather than copying a manual process from another firm.
Working with partner brokers: define how a partner firm and ACCC split the work on accounts, trades, and holding client assets, so it still works as volume grows.
After the trade: settlement in Canada (through CDS), trades that fail to settle, and corporate actions such as dividends and splits. Automate the routine cases and keep a clear list of exceptions, instead of running the book in spreadsheets.
Registered accounts and tax: TFSA, RRSP, RESP, and similar accounts. Cover who can open them, contribution rules, what a security cost, tax withheld on dividends and other income, and the reports clients and partners need.
The day after launch: written steps for daily work, checks that our records match the custodian and the market, contacts at vendors and custodians, and a plan if a system or vendor fails. Have these ready before real client volume shows up.
Building Canada: clear handoffs between product, engineering, and operations teams.
What you’ll own:
Account lifecycle & client/introducing-broker servicing (onboarding handoffs, KYC/AML ops interfaces, maintenance, transfers)
Trade lifecycle (capture, affirmation, clearing, settlement, fails, breaks)
Custody & asset servicing (segregation, security movements, corporate actions, cash)
Books & records, reconciliations, exception management, and operational controls
Registered accounts & tax ops: TFSA, RRSP, RESP and related wrappers; tax lots / cost basis; withholding; local reporting partners need to stay compliant
Day-2 production ops: runbooks, escalations, vendor/custody interfaces, BCP/DR operational playbooks
How you’ll work:
Translate Canadian reality into runnable process
— CIRO-aligned dealer/clearing/custody expectations, introducing–carrying dynamics, custody controls, and operational risk into SOPs, RACI, controls, and exception paths Product and Engineering can build against
Automation-first by default
—
redesign high-volume / high-risk / high-friction work for straight-through processing, rules, exception queues, and measurable SLAs, instead of spreadsheet heroics
AI-first operating lens
— Prototype and productize AI-assisted ops (exception triage, recon investigation, SOP Q&A, control-testing support, runbook copilots) with human oversight where risk or regulation requires it
Go-live and beyond
— Readiness for ACCC launch and early production; continuous improvement after go-live
Raise the bar without managing a team
— Coach partners through expertise, crisp documentation, and decision logs; leave systems others can run
How we'll measure success:
Launch readiness gates met with documented controls, SOPs, RACI, and runbooks Product / Eng / Ops can execute against
STP, exception, and reconciliation aging targets defined and trending the right way post go-live
Registered-account and tax workflows ready when partners launch, rather than added later
Specs and decision logs that remove re-discovery for Product and Engineering
Systems and playbooks others can run after you, so knowledge sticks in the org and not only in one person's head
Who you are (Must-haves):
10+ years of hands-on experience supporting Canadian brokerage operations, including experience within a CIRO-regulated dealer, carrying broker, custodian, clearing firm, or global operations team servicing the Canadian securities market. Candidates may be based in Canada or India, provided they have demonstrated Canadian market expertise.
Fluent in the plumbing: clearing / settlement, custody, CDS / CDSX (or equivalent), fails, corp actions, tax, cash / securities ops, account servicing, introducing / carrying arrangements
Demonstrated depth in at least two of: clearing / settlement; custody & asset servicing; books & records / reconciliations; registered accounts & tax
Regulatory-literate (CIRO / provincial securities / CSA context). You design operable controls, and you are not the UDP or compliance sign-off owner
Builder: you've redesigned and shipped process + tooling changes that stuck, not only run BAU
Practical with automation and AI (workflow automation, rules engines, RPA, or AI-assisted ops). You know where AI helps and where controls must stay deterministic
Exceptional written communication: SOPs, RACI, decision logs, and requirements that cross-functional teams can ship against
Who you might be (Nice-to-haves):
Greenfield Canadian dealer / clearing / custody stand-up
API-first or broker-as-a-service / correspondent platforms
US and Canada dual-entity operations
Deep CDS / CDSX or Canadian market-infrastructure experience
Registered-account or Canadian tax-ops stand-up (TFSA, RRSP, RESP, tax lots, withholding, reporting)
AI-native ops workflow: recurring use of tools like Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, or custom agents for SOP drafting, exception synthesis, and prototyping
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: Remote - APAC
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 Site Reliability Engineer at Alpaca, you'll help keep our brokerage platform reliable, observable, and operable as we grow - working across our cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, observability stack, messaging layer, and data layer. We're especially interested in candidates with strong PostgreSQL fundamentals who'd like to grow into deeper ownership of our database reliability posture: PostgreSQL sits on the trading-critical path, and we want this person to spend a meaningful share of their time leveling it up while still being a well-rounded SRE the rest of the week.
Things You Get To Do
Operate production day-to-day
- oncall, incident response, postmortems, and the follow-ups that actually close the loop.
Own reliability practice
- define and refine SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and help product teams live within them.
Strengthen our observability
across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
Ship infrastructure through code
in a GitOps workflow - cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads alike.
Look after PostgreSQL
: performance tuning, schema and migration review, online migrations on large tables, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines.
Mentor engineers
on reliability and database fundamentals through code review, design review, and pairing.
Who You Are (must-haves)
4+ years
in SRE, DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant production operations ownership.
Hands-on experience operating production services on
Kubernetes
, and shipping infrastructure as code in a GitOps workflow.
Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL in production
— query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing and schema trade-offs, and what a safe online migration looks like on a non-trivial table.
Cloud networking fundamentals
(VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, TLS) and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity.
Comfortable with a modern observability stack and
proficient with Linux
at the operator level.
Practiced in
incident response
- calm under pressure, structured debugging, postmortems that drive change.
At least working proficiency in
Go or Python
, plus strong written and verbal communication.
Genuine interest in databases and in growing your PostgreSQL/DBA expertise.
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
Deeper PostgreSQL experience: large clusters at OLTP load, online migrations on big tables, HA/DR ownership, connection pooling at scale, or change-data-capture pipelines.
Experience with typed SQL access layers in Go (e.g. pgx, gorm, sqlc).
Production experience with messaging systems at scale (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redpanda).
Security & compliance experience in a regulated environment (SOC 2, secrets management, audit logging).
Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or other regulated fintech domains.
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: Remote- Europe/ Americas
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.
About the Role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will own the technical direction of Alpaca's streaming platform - our Redpanda-based event backbone and the user-facing streaming infrastructure. Platform also owns Authentication, Developer Experience and QA, and AI-Native Engineering. Streaming is roughly two-thirds of the job and where we expect you to become the deepest engineer in the company; across the other three you review the designs, hold an informed opinion, and lead the work where they meet streaming.
This is a Staff role, so we are hiring for direction as much as delivery - the engineer who decides what the streaming platform looks like in two years, writes the RFC that gets three teams to agree, and then builds the hard part. We own client-facing and internal services, maintain shared libraries nearly every team depends on, and manage our own deployments. Most of our time goes into Go, but we also write Helm charts, dig through logs and metrics, and get pulled into a wide variety of problems.
Things You Get To Do
Own the architecture of our event streaming platform end to end - Redpanda, the UTS ecosystem, client libraries and user-facing streaming - and set its two-to-three-year direction
Lead the shift from batch to event-driven across Alpaca's systems, working with the teams who own them rather than around them
Design user-facing streaming at scale: connection fan-out, slow consumers, backpressure, ordering and delivery guarantees, and the failure modes that only show up on a volatile market day
Set the standards for event-driven design - schema evolution, topic ownership, replay, idempotency - and own the shared libraries other teams build against, including the cost of versioning and deprecation
Shape AuthN/AuthZ direction across Alpaca and lead the work where identity meets streaming: authorizing real-time subscriptions, token lifecycle on long-lived connections, multi-tenant isolation
Help shape how Alpaca builds with AI - the schemas, contracts and event streams you own are the substrate our agentic development platform runs on
Partner with SRE on chaos testing and game days for the event backbone, and with our QA stream on test tooling and pre-production gates, so resilience is verified rather than assumed
Lead through influence rather than authority, and multiply the engineers around you through mentoring, design review, and handing off the work that grows people
Join the Platform on-call rotation and act as technical lead during incidents affecting shared infrastructure
Who You Are (must-haves)
8+ years of professional engineering experience, including several years running systems at real scale. You write Go, or have deep experience in another strongly-typed language and will pick it up quickly.
You have architected event streaming systems, not just used them - real production depth in Kafka or Redpanda across partitioning, consumer groups, rebalancing, retention and delivery guarantees, and how each breaks under load.
You have delivered realtime data to clients at scale (WebSockets, SSE or gRPC streaming) and handled fan-out, slow consumers and backpressure in production.
You have driven technical direction across team boundaries without formal authority. You can point to the decisions you owned, the RFCs you wrote, and what happened next.
You have built or maintained libraries many teams depend on, and know what backward compatibility and deprecation actually cost.
You have mentored senior engineers and left the teams around you better than you found them.
You have real depth in at least one adjacent area - identity and access, developer tooling and CI, or testing and resilience - and genuine curiosity about the others.
You know Kubernetes beyond the basics: you can write a Helm chart with relative ease, you understand security best practices, and you have job experience or certifications to prove it.
You have worked with relational databases - we use PostgreSQL, but we are not picky as long as the fundamentals are solid.
You have worked at a startup before - you thrive in ambiguous environments, embrace changing priorities, know when to balance technical debt with speed, and proactively tackle whatever needs to get done without relying on pre-existing processes or documentation.
Who You Might Be (nice-to-haves)
You’ve worked with an IDL or binary serialization format (Protobuf, Avro; we use FlatBuffers) and handled schema evolution across many consumers.
You have experience with change data capture (Debezium, PeerDB or similar) and understand how Postgres logical replication works.
You’ve worked on auth systems - OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT lifecycle, Keycloak or Cognito - especially around long-lived connections or machine-to-machine access.
You’ve built agentic or AI-native developer tooling, or designed systems meant to be operated by agents rather than only by people.
You’ve run chaos engineering or game days, or built the load and fault-injection testing that makes them worth running.
You’ve done IaC with Argo CD or Terraform.
You have experience with Grafana’s observability stack - Prometheus, Tempo and all the rest. You might have even written a PromQL query for a new alert once or twice.
You’ve worked in fintech or another regulated domain and understand how compliance constraints shape architecture.
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
Location: Remote - Japan - APAC
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.
Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will design, build and operate the platforms behind software delivery, edge and L7 networking, platform access, and the application-facing parts of our observability stack. Alpaca is expanding fast and our needs grow with it, so we run a follow-the-sun model that keeps those systems covered around the clock. This role is the team's presence in its own region: supporting and owning that platform in your timezone.
While we are not looking for a specialist in a single tool, deep expertise in one of the tools we use alongside a broad skillset would be an advantage. What we care about most is judgement: thinking in terms of delivery and the request path, understanding business priorities and the pressure that comes with fast growth, and carrying a piece of work across quarters to a high standard without needing supervision. The engineers who do well here choose the simple solution over the easy one, even when the simple one takes longer to find.
Things You Get To Do
Help the engineers who build on our platform
: troubleshoot problems across the stack, advise teams on how to use what we run, and take your share of the support rotation during your region's hours.
Participate
in our Follow-The-Sun on-call model: watch and triage alerts, join and declare incidents, lead structured debugging and escalation, and drive blameless post-mortems and the post-actions that actually close the loop.
Own the path a change takes to production
- GitHub Actions into Argo CD, with Helm underneath - and the release tooling that has to work across multiple clusters and regions.
Run high-traffic edge and API gateway infrastructure
serving hundreds of millions of requests a day globally, where performance, availability and safe change all matter at once.
Operates the internal tooling the rest of engineering depends on
- Grafana, Sentry, Teleport, Metabase, Atlantis and others - as production services with real users rather than one-off installations.
Advance
Platform-as-a-Product: build self-serve capabilities and paved paths so engineers can get what they need through a golden path rather than a hand-off, measured by how quickly and safely the rest of engineering can ship.
Take improvement projects end to end
, from a problem nobody has framed yet through to something running in production that other teams rely on.
Who You Are (Must-Haves)
5+ years in a DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or SRE role, with a proven track record operating large-scale, high-availability, high-performance systems in production.
A track record of carrying multi-quarter platform work end to end in a complex environment running multiple Kubernetes clusters.
Deep production Kubernetes experience across multiple clusters - upgrades, debugging and day-to-day operational ownership - including packaging and deploying workloads with Helm.
Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform, structuring codebases across multiple environments, with GitOps as a first principle and least-privilege as a default mindset.
Proven experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines at scale, for example with GitHub Actions, including releases that deploy to multiple production locations rather than only promoting through environments.
GitOps continuous delivery with Argo CD, or a comparable tool you can transfer from.
Working production experience on Google Cloud, ideally GKE. You do not need to have designed landing zones or cloud topology, but you should be fluent operating on GCP day to day.
Solid L7 networking fundamentals - load balancing, DNS, TLS and HTTP routing - and comfort debugging the request path from edge to workload.
A Platform-as-a-Product mindset, treating what the team runs as products with real users rather than internal installations.
Able and willing to take part in a Follow-The-Sun on-call rotation from APAC or EMEA hours, and to work effectively in a distributed, async-first team with strong written communication.
Who You Might Be (Bonus Points)
You can succeed in this role without all of the below, but any of these will help you ramp faster:
Policy-as-code and IaC quality tooling (OPA/Conftest, Checkov, tflint, Atlantis, or similar).
Experience managing Terraform state, module registries and versioning at scale across many teams.
Running secret management at scale (HashiCorp Vault, OpenBao, or similar) as a service other teams depend on.
Internal PKI and certificate lifecycle management (private CAs, issuance and rotation, mTLS between services).
Experience building self-serve developer platforms and internal golden paths (e.g. with Backstage, Tilt, or similar).
Production experience on Azure alongside GCP.
Working proficiency in Go for automation and tooling.
Strong Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) and container (Docker/containerd) fundamentals.
Security and compliance experience in a regulated environment (SOC 2, audit logging).
Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or other regulated fintech domains.
How We Take Care of You:
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.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
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