Jobs at Alpaca

Manage end-to-end custody operations for Saudi-market assets, ensuring safekeeping, T+2 settlement, reconciliations, corporate actions, regulatory compliance with CMA, and team leadership while collaborating with Edaa, Tadawul, custodians, engineering, and product to automate workflows and reduce risk.

The Senior Full-Stack Engineer will design, implement, and maintain systems for Trading API customers, focusing on both frontend and backend development, while leading projects and mentoring peers.

Operate and improve Alpaca's production infrastructure: on-call incident response, define SLIs/SLOs, enhance observability, ship infrastructure as code via GitOps, and strengthen PostgreSQL reliability (performance, migrations, HA/DR). Mentor teams on reliability and database fundamentals.

Build and architect Alpaca's advisory services (block trading, portfolio management, IRA). Design scalable, low-latency distributed systems, write full-stack code, optimize throughput, work with messaging systems and OMS, and implement high-availability, concurrency-safe solutions for financial trading/exchange workloads.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

Design, implement, and maintain frontend applications and internal tools. Own delivery of high-visibility features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor peers, and ensure performant, accessible, polished user interfaces integrated with backend systems.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and build scalable market data systems, improve API architecture, and enhance overall system performance, contributing to Alpaca's infrastructure for trading financial assets.

Build and maintain core post-trade clearing systems and securities-finance infrastructure. Own projects end-to-end, design reliable distributed services and RESTful APIs, integrate new clearing partners, participate in on-call rotation, and improve systems to enable new product offerings.

As a Senior SDET, you will enhance testing practices, improve CI pipelines, mentor engineers, and ensure platform reliability through comprehensive testing strategies.