AlpacaDB, Inc., also known as Alpaca and Alpaca Securities, is an API stock and crypto brokerage platform that enables services to embed investing and developer
Director of Engineering, Trading
Location
California + 1 moreAll locations: California | New York
Posted
17 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director of Engineering, Trading
AlpacaDB
• 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 • 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 • 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 • Provide technical and architectural thought leadership in trading and brokerage technology, influencing direction internally and through industry engagement • Hands-on engineering, such as writing PoC code, conducting code reviews, deploying to production, and providing an L3 escalation contact point.
Job Requirements
- A Director-level (or above) engineering leader with experience owning critical, market-facing platforms
- Proven experience building and scaling engineering teams focused on complex, high-impact systems
- Deep understanding of institutional trading and brokerage technology, including execution systems, risk and margin platforms, and trading analytics
- Experience designing or operating systems that support cross-asset risk and margining across multiple asset classes
- Strong architectural judgment and the ability to balance speed, reliability, and control in regulated environments
- Deep knowledge of OS fundamentals and distributed systems, sufficient to set architectural direction and evaluate designs for performance-critical trading systems.
- Effective partner to senior business, brokerage, and product leaders
- Clear communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- 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
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