Director of Engineering, Trading
Alpaca is a brokerage infrastructure company providing developer APIs for stocks, options, fixed income, and crypto trading, plus tokenization infrastructure for TradFi–DeFi markets.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Alpaca
Alpaca provides API-first brokerage infrastructure for fintechs, institutions, algorithmic traders, and developers. Its offerings include Broker API, Trading API, market data, self-clearing brokerage services, crypto services, and the Instant Tokenization Network for in-kind minting and redemption of tokenized assets.
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About the Role
Lead engineering for Alpaca's institutional trading platform, partnering with senior brokerage and technology leaders to build multi-asset trading capabilities across equities, options, FX, futures, and derivatives. The role combines architectural leadership, team management, cross-functional coordination, and hands-on engineering in performance-critical systems.
Requirements
- Director-level or above engineering leadership experience owning critical market-facing platforms
- Experience building and scaling engineering teams for complex systems
- Deep knowledge of institutional trading and brokerage technology
- Experience with cross-asset risk and margining systems
- Strong architectural judgment in regulated environments
- Deep knowledge of OS fundamentals and distributed systems
- Ability to partner with senior business, brokerage, and product leaders
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the engineering roadmap for the institutional trading platform
- Build, lead, and scale a high-performing engineering team
- Align engineering priorities with institutional and prime brokerage strategy
- Lead multi-asset trading architecture and cross-margining across equities, options, FX, futures, and derivatives
- Drive architecture for trading APIs, order management, real-time risk, and margin engines
- Set standards for performance, availability, scalability, and operational resilience
- Coordinate initiatives across trading, risk, margin, asset classes, and customer-facing tooling
- Collaborate with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Finance
- Represent institutional trading engineering in executive planning and decision-making
- Provide technical and architectural thought leadership
- Perform hands-on engineering, code reviews, production deployments, and L3 escalation support
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup
- USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card