management
Posted 2 weeks agoDirector of Engineering, Trading
at Alpaca
Remote
Responsibilities
- Define and own and execute the engineering roadmap for Alpaca’s institutional trading platform
- Build, lead, and scale a high-performing team of engineers with a strong culture of ownership and execution
- Lead the evolution toward a multi-asset trading architecture supporting cross-margining across equities, options, FX, futures, and other derivatives
- Design and deliver institutional trading capabilities, including but not limited to:
- Drive architectural decisions across trading APIs, our proprietary order management system, real-time risk, and margin engines
- Set and enforce technical standards for performance, availability, scalability, and operational resilience in latency-sensitive systems
- Coordinate multiple concurrent initiatives across trading, risk, margin, asset classes, and customer-facing tooling
- Represent institutional trading engineering in executive-level planning and decision-making
Requirements
- 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.
- Who You Are (Must-Haves):
- Deep understanding of institutional trading and brokerage technology, including execution systems, risk and margin platforms, and trading analytics •
- Deep knowledge of OS fundamentals and distributed systems, sufficient to set architectural direction and evaluate designs for performance-critical trading systems.
- Experience with algorithmic trading systems across multiple asset classes
- Experience contributing to architecture standards or externally visible technical initiatives Prior
Benefits
- Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
- 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