Team Lead - Trading
Alpaca provides developer APIs for stock, options, and crypto trading, enabling businesses and developers to build trading applications and automate investment strategies.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Alpaca
Alpaca helps developers and businesses access financial markets through API-first infrastructure for stock, options, and cryptocurrency trading. Users can build algorithmic trading strategies, create investing applications, and integrate brokerage services into their platforms.
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About the Role
You will lead the development of an algorithmic trading platform while remaining hands-on with code and system design. You will own technical direction, roadmap delivery, code quality, production reliability, hiring, mentoring, performance management, and collaboration across product, operations, compliance, clearing, and engineering.
Requirements
- Senior or staff-level software engineering experience
- Previous experience leading engineers
- Ability to mentor and grow engineers
- Track record delivering complex systems on schedule
- Coding skills in C C++ Go Zig Rust Java Scala or Python
- Experience optimizing low-latency and high-throughput systems
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
- Knowledge of algorithms distributed systems scalability databases and concurrency control
- System design experience with object-oriented modeling and service-oriented architecture
- Experience developing Order Management and Risk Management systems
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Ability to operate with ambiguity
- Previous trading or exchange systems experience
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and architecture
- Make long-term technical trade-off decisions
- Own the engineering roadmap and delivery
- Plan work and unblock engineers
- Set code and design quality standards
- Review code and design documents
- Own reliability latency and correctness targets
- Manage on-call health and incident follow-through
- Hire onboard mentor and develop engineers
- Provide feedback and performance support
- Collaborate with product operations compliance clearing and engineering teams
- Contribute hands-on code
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time USD 500 home-office setup
- USD 150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card
