• Design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems for the Japan market. • Develop and enhance the middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, REST and gRPC APIs, and third-party vendor integrations specific to the Japan market (e.g. JPX, JSCC, JASDEC, banks, identity verification vendors). • Work closely with Alpaca's core teams to enhance and transform the core framework, enabling support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets, with a particular focus on Japan-specific requirements such as NISA, MyNumber, withholding tax, and JP-GAAP accounting. • Collaborate with tech leads in other regions both synchronously and asynchronously, primarily through Slack and meetings, to align with global teams. • Coordinate in Japanese with local regulators, vendors, partners, and business stakeholders, and translate those requirements into technical specifications for the global engineering team. • Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to maintain system integrity and performance. • Participate in on-call rotations and assist with timely engineering projects and production issues during Japan business hours. • Thrive in a global environment, effectively navigating regulatory requirements and building scalable solutions to support Alpaca's expansion in Japan.

• own polished user experiences across different platforms. • strong in modern web/mobile UI development, comfortable shipping across platforms. • able to work closely with a small, agile team. • have a strong design sense, and backend to turn user feedback into fast, intuitive, high-quality experiences. • Strong product instincts, attention to UX detail, and a bias toward shipping are essential.

• The Engineering Operations Specialist is a hands‑on operator responsible for implementing, maintaining, automating and continuously improving a unified Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) across a portfolio of software applications. • This role is deeply embedded in day‑to‑day engineering and product operations, owning Atlassian Jira, Confluence, and Productboard configurations and actively building workflows, automation, and integrations that support efficient quality delivery. • This position combines process ownership with technical execution, requiring someone who can both define standards and personally configure the tools that enforce them. • The role works closely with Engineering, Product, and Quality teams to reduce friction, increase visibility, and ensure consistent execution across diverse teams and systems. • In addition, this role will look towards automating reporting and operations using AI.

Role Description We are seeking a Technical Lead, Platform to lead the design, development, and evolution of our backend platform services. This role is responsible for building and scaling Python-based services and APIs, driving architecture decisions, and leading a team of engineers delivering high-quality, production-grade platform capabilities. The ideal candidate is a hands-on Python expert who combines deep backend expertise with strong leadership and a product-driven mindset. Key Responsibilities - Technical Leadership - Own the architecture and design of Python-based backend services and APIs - Drive decisions on scalable, secure, and high-performance Python systems - Translate high-level business requirements into scalable technical architecture and system design - Execution & Delivery - Lead engineers building high-performance backend services in Python - Ensure delivery of scalable, maintainable Python code in production - Partner closely with Product, Operations, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical deliverables - Drive operational excellence including monitoring, debugging, and system reliability - Platform & Architecture - Design and evolve Python-based microservices architecture - Build and maintain RESTful APIs using Python frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI) - Design event-driven systems and scalable backend services - Ensure extensibility, performance, and system reliability - Team Leadership & Mentorship - Mentor engineers in advanced Python development and system design - Conduct code reviews emphasizing Python best practices - Elevate engineering standards and backend architecture quality - Foster ownership, accountability, and product-driven engineering mindset Qualifications - 8+ years of backend engineering experience with Python as the primary language - Expert-level proficiency building production-grade Python services - Strong experience with Python frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI) - Proven experience building scalable APIs and distributed systems in Python - Strong database design, SQL optimization, and data modeling experience - Experience deploying and operating Python systems on AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3) - Experience with ORMs such as SQLAlchemy and Python data access patterns Requirements - Proven experience leading backend teams using Python - Strong ability to define and execute Python-first technical strategy - Track record of mentoring engineers and improving system quality Skills/Attributes - Expert-level Python development for backend services, APIs, and microservices - Strong experience with Django, Flask, or FastAPI frameworks - Proven ability to design scalable, high-performance, and reliable distributed systems - Solid understanding of data modeling, SQL optimization, and ORM usage (e.g., SQLAlchemy) - Experience building and operating cloud-based systems, preferably on AWS - Strong grasp of observability, monitoring, and system performance tuning - Ability to design secure, extensible, and maintainable platform architectures - Experience with microservices and event-driven design patterns - Strong API design and integration expertise - Balances scalability, reliability, and cost in technical decisions - Proven track record leading and mentoring engineering teams - Drives code quality, best practices, and engineering standards - Effective in cross-functional collaboration with product and data teams - Fosters accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement - Delivers high-quality, production-ready systems in fast-paced environments - Translates business needs into scalable technical solutions - Drives technical roadmaps aligned to product and organizational goals - Focused on reliability, operational excellence, and continuous delivery - Product-oriented with a focus on delivering business impact - Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills - Pragmatic, results-driven, and adaptable - Committed to continuous learning and innovation