Director of Engineering, Trading
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Alpaca Financial Technology
Remote - North AmericaFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Risk ManagementDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Director-level (or above) engineering leadership experience
- Experience owning critical, market-facing platforms
- Proven experience building and scaling engineering teams for complex systems
- Deep understanding of institutional trading and brokerage technology
- Experience with execution systems, risk and margin platforms, and trading analytics
- Experience designing or operating systems that support cross-asset risk and margining
- Strong architectural judgment for regulated environments
- Deep knowledge of OS fundamentals and distributed systems
- Experience setting architectural direction and evaluating designs for performance-critical systems
- Effective partnership with senior business and product leaders
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
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
- Partner with the Office of the CTO and Global Head of Brokerage to align engineering priorities with institutional and prime brokerage strategy
- Lead the evolution toward a multi-asset trading architecture supporting cross-margining across equities, options, FX, futures, and other derivatives
- 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
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Finance to deliver production-ready systems
- Represent institutional trading engineering in executive-level planning and decision-making
- Hands-on engineering, such as writing PoC code, conducting code reviews, deploying to production, and providing an L3 escalation contact point
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