As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.

The market data team is responsible for improving the overall architecture of Alpaca connected to data products such as stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets. Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and is tasked with planning, ideating, experimenting, and putting into production the new services, and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly.

We are looking for senior or staff engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.

Things You Get To Do:

• Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems
• Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems
• Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts)
• Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matters
• Maintain good software quality and test coverage
• Participate in code reviews
• Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
• You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
• Experience with at least compiled imperative languages (e.g. Go, C, C++, Rust, etc.). Most of our critical services are written in Go
• SQL or relational database skills
• Familiarity with TCP/IP, and UDP networking
• Proficient with Linux/BSD, and shell scripting
• Excited about what we are building at Alpaca
• Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
• Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (we primarily use Kubernetes via GKE)
• Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
• A passion for financial markets

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):  

• Knowledge of microservice architectures
• Knowledge of clean code principles
• DevOps mindset is an asset
• Cloud Networking experience (BGP, VPC peering)
• Experience in building low-latency applications
• Experience with distributed key-value stores
• Experience with CI/CD
• A passion for financial markets or the desire to learn
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling
• Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking
• Knowledge of eBPF 

Your Role:

The VP of Marketing will be a key driver of Alpaca’s growth engine, reporting directly to the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). This individual will own the marketing function globally across brand, content, GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), B2B and B2B2C growth, and international go-to-market. This is a hands-on, strategic, and highly cross-functional role for a world-class storyteller and operator who can translate complex technology into simple, compelling narratives that resonate across enterprise markets.

What You’ll Be Doing

Operate with a Quantified, Pipeline-First Mindset: Every initiative is anchored to pipeline and revenue impact — you define success metrics upfront, model expected lift (using available data like CRM, product usage, or lifecycle signals), and prioritize ruthlessly based on ROI in a lean environment

Build and Scale the Global Marketing Function. Design, operationalize, and lead a unified marketing strategy that aligns with the CRO’s revenue goals and Alpaca’s multi-geography expansion. Build an elite, metrics-driven team across brand, digital, partnerships, and demand generation.

Own End-to-End Marketing Strategy & Creative B2B Growth Develop and execute multi-channel B2B and B2B2C campaigns that drive brand awareness, enterprise pipeline generation, partner activation, and end-user adoption. Rather than relying on massive media spend, you will architect creative, high-impact growth motions to penetrate key verticals and geographies. Define the strategy for how Alpaca speaks to fintechs, financial institutions, developers, and enterprise decision-makers.

Executive Brand Ownership Set and elevate Alpaca’s global brand narrative. Ensure consistency across every region, channel, partner, and product line. Shape our market positioning across the US, Canada, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, India, Latin America, the UK/EU, and beyond.

Content, GEO, and Thought Leadership Create a world-class content engine that supports enterprise penetration, technical storytelling, and developer education. Own Alpaca’s GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) strategy to ensure we are the authoritative voice in AI-driven search and discovery for brokerage, fintech infrastructure, and global markets.

Data-Driven Decision Making Champion a culture of experimentation and analytics. Leverage deep knowledge of demand generation to use customer insights and funnel analytics to inform investment decisions. Design and execute nurture programs and conversion strategies, with every initiative tied back to revenue and measurable outcomes.

Global Collaboration and GTM Integration Partner closely with Product Marketing (housed within the Product team), Sales, Engineering, and Regulatory teams to align marketing execution with the broader GTM strategy. Ensure seamless integration between regional marketing efforts and global demand generation to support the sales organization.

Event Marketing and Brand Initiatives Own the strategy and execution for Alpaca’s global event footprint (conferences, partner summits, and regional activations) to drive enterprise leads and brand equity. Oversee holistic brand touchpoints that strengthen customer affinity (including website stewardship and swag programs).

Partnering with Communications, the SVP, Marketing, will work in lockstep with the Head of Communications to maximize PR and earned media efforts for demand generation. While the Head of Comms leads corporate PR and media relations, you will collaborate to turn press coverage into high-impact marketing assets and align the media calendar with B2B campaign launches. Together, you will ensure a unified voice across the industry, ensuring that every major announcement or thought leadership piece is optimized for GEO and serves as a catalyst for the enterprise sales funnel.

Who We’re Looking For

Experience & Background

• 10+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience, with 5–8+ years in senior management roles.
• Proven track record in B2B demand generation and brand building within global organizations.
• Fintech, SaaS infrastructure, payments, brokerage, or financial services experience strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of B2B and B2B2C growth motions, enterprise buyer psychology, and API-driven adoption cycles.
• Proven ability to drive growth through creative strategy and organic levers rather than relying on large-scale budget increases.

Leadership & Communication

• Collaborative leader with a proven ability to mentor global teams and work effectively under a revenue-focused reporting structure.
• Exceptional storyteller who can translate technical products into compelling narratives for C-suite customers.
• Experience recruiting, coaching, and scaling high-performing marketing functions.

Strategic & Analytical Skills

• Mastery of Enterprise Marketing: Proven ability to navigate long sales cycles, account-based marketing (ABM), and high-contract-value decision-making processes.
• Advanced knowledge of GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and modern content distribution.
• Strong diagnostic skills with the ability to make ROI-driven decisions in a metrics-obsessed environment.

Mindset

• Results-driven with a passion for innovation and "scrappy" enterprise experimentation.
• Comfortable operating in a high-velocity, high-ambiguity environment.
• Global mindset with cultural fluency across North America, MENA, APAC, and LATAM.

Your Role:

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining frontend applications that form the foundation of user experience at Alpaca and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.

As part of a focused and specialized engineering team, you will be responsible for the user experience and product development for Trading API customers, encompassing both the frontend trading dashboards and backend systems that power Trading API product features like elite, high-yield cash, paper accounts, and more. Working closely with our users and internal stakeholders, we specialize in delivering high-quality end-to-end solutions across the full suite of frontend and backend systems at Alpaca.

We’re looking for someone who brings deep frontend expertise, enjoys mentoring others, and thrives in a culture of curiosity and continuous improvement. Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team with a keen attention to detail, you’ll build elegant and seamless user experiences with a focus on polish, performance, responsiveness, and accessibility.

Things You Get To Do:

• Play a pivotal role in architecting and developing web and mobile applications that push the boundaries of technology
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to create responsive, performant, and intuitive user interfaces that delight our customers
• Own the delivery of high-visibility features/projects, from design to deployment
• Mentor peers and influence the technical strategy of our company

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• 5+ years of experience in frontend development with TypeScript/React
• 3+ years of experience in mobile application development for Android and iOS
• 2+ years of experience using a modern systems programming language like Golang, C++, or Rust
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to translate product mockups and designs into fully realized user interfaces
• Proficient in HTML and CSS frameworks such as TailwindCSS
• Passionate about creating intuitive and performance user interfaces
• Experience with REST APIs and WebSockets best practices
• Experience with relational databases and SQL
• Track record of setting or influencing frontend best practices
• Attention to detail and an appreciation for design aesthetics

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

• Algo trading experience (either professional or personal)

• Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)

• Experience or understanding of financial markets
• Experience working at a startup
• Experience working remotely

• Define and execute Alpaca’s global tax reporting strategy, balancing U.S. requirements with international client needs
• Architect and lead the build of a proprietary cost basis engine from the ground up, in close partnership with Engineering
• Design and implement a global tax matrix (country of residence vs. security domicile) to determine treaty rates and withholding logic
• Oversee all reporting obligations including 1099, 1042-S (non-U.S. persons), 5498 (retirement accounts), and contribution-related reporting
• Establish a year-round tax readiness program, including multiple test cycles, reconciliations, and “dry runs” to validate systems and data pipelines
• Own delivery of a flawless January tax season, with clear guidelines, SLAs, and operational rubrics for execution
• Build and scale a high-performing team, setting standards for accuracy, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations to embed tax logic into core systems
• Act as the primary point of contact for audits, regulators, and external stakeholders on tax reporting matters

• 10+ years of experience in brokerage tax reporting and cost basis, with deep U.S. expertise
• Hands-on experience building or leading the development of a cost basis engine or similar financial calculation system
• Strong knowledge of 1099-COMP, 1042-S, 5498, and contribution reporting, including retirement account considerations
• Experience supporting global clients, including understanding of withholding, treaty rates, and cross-border tax implications
• Proven ability to design scalable systems, controls, and processes from scratch
• Track record of leading teams and delivering accurate, on-time tax reporting cycles
• Ability to operate at both strategic and deeply operational levels, especially under time-sensitive conditions

• Experience building a residence vs. security domicile matrix for treaty rate application
• Background in API-first brokerages, clearing firms, or multi-asset platforms
• Familiarity with international tax regimes and reporting beyond the U.S.
• Experience running mock tax seasons, parallel runs, or large-scale system validation cycles
• CPA or equivalent certification
• Experience working directly with regulators or leading large-scale audits

About the Role

We’re looking for a Technical Content Marketing Manager, Trading API to help grow awareness, adoption, and engagement for Alpaca’s Trading API. This role is ideal for someone who can create compelling, accurate content for a technical audience while keeping the voice accessible to retail developers, algo traders, and builders in fintech. This person will sit at the intersection of content marketing, product storytelling, and technical education.

This role is for someone who enjoys getting into the details of APIs, trading workflows, and technical product features, turning that complexity into content that helps users understand the product, adopt new features, and deepen their engagement with Alpaca. You should be comfortable translating technical concepts into clear, engaging narratives that resonate with developers and self-directed traders.

What You’ll Do

• Own technical content strategy for Alpaca’s Trading API and related products, driving awareness and adoption
• Write and edit educational and product-driven content such as tutorials, explainers, launch posts, feature spotlights, onboarding materials, case studies, newsletters, and technical thought leadership for algorithmic trading across stocks, options, and crypto
• Identify content opportunities based on user needs, product priorities, and growth goals
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and other internal leaders to turn technical updates into clear user-facing content
• Translate complex concepts in trading infrastructure, market mechanics, and algorithmic strategy design into clear, technically accurate content for developers, retail traders, and algorithmic traders
• Support go-to-market (GTM) efforts with launch messaging, website copy, and supporting content assets
• Help improve discoverability and adoption through SEO, content refreshes, and audience-focused distribution
• Ensure technical content is accurate, relevant, and aligned with Alpaca’s brand and product positioning
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• 3–5 years of experience in content marketing, content strategy, editorial, or a related role
• Strong writing and editing skills with the ability to simplify technical or complex topics
• Experience creating content for software, APIs, fintech, or other technical products
• Ability to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and marketing stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of ownership
• Strong judgment around audience, tone, and message clarity
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience with algorithmic trading, developer tools, or technical products
• Hands-on coding experience or comfort reading code examples
• Experience with GitHub and Python
• Knowledge of trading strategies, retail trading workflows, or market structure
• Based in North America

Your Role:

Fix Alpaca’s operational bottlenecks for scale. 

Your mission is to own and break the cycle of operational debt by transforming high-risk bottlenecks into automated, scalable solutions. You will operate as the critical bridge, ensuring Alpaca’s ambitions are balanced against operational reality to secure the foundation for parabolic growth. 

Things You Get To Do:

• Own Structural Bottlenecks: Own the product roadmap for Alpaca’s internal workflows and tooling. Drive root cause analysis and execute on the most complex and high-risk operational problems (e.g. AML/KYC workflows, reconciliations, corporate actions, cost basis processing, tax reporting, and security master/reference data management)
• Automation Strategy: Design systems and leverage internal tooling, AI, and workflow orchestration, so existing operations teams can support 100x growth. Eliminate critical failure modes by automating core workflows. 
• Delivery & Measurement: Define clear success metrics and SLAs. Write crisp specifications, map processes, and work cross-functionally to ship high-leverage tooling, iterating based on operational feedback.
• Data-Driven Prioritization: Design and manage the data framework for selecting strategic projects, blending inputs from the Risk, Sales and Support. 
• Enforce Operational Readiness: Collaborate with Sales and Product to establish, manage, and enforce the operational capacity standards, acting as the critical check between ambitions and operational reality.
• Platform Strategy & Sourcing: Drive critical Build vs. Buy evaluations for core platform components, ensuring compliance and optimal platform integrity.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• Experience: Proven track record in Product Management or technical operations roles, with a focus on FinTech, Brokerage, or Payments platforms; including leading cross-functional projects and securing resources against competing initiatives.
• Leadership: Exceptional prioritization and judgment. Proven ability to measure product impact against risk and cost, influence senior stakeholders, and successfully defend "not now" decisions with clear, actionable data.
• Automation Obsessed: A deep, demonstrated passion for following and applying workflow automation and AI trends pragmatically to brokerage operations.
• Operational Knowledge: Strong functional knowledge of brokerage or financial operations (settlements, reconciliations, client money, best execution, etc.) and regulatory compliance/risk mitigation.
• Financial Infrastructure Knowledge: Experience working with broker-dealer platforms, clearing firms, or trading infrastructure, with exposure to post-trade operational workflows.
• Technical Fluency: Proficient with data, understanding complex system boundaries, and process mapping skills.

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

• Direct experience with tax reporting, cost basis, corporate actions, or security master systems
• Strong familiarity with AI automation

Your Role:

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets.

As part of the Trading API team, you will be responsible for the user experience and product development for Trading API customers, encompassing both the frontend trading dashboards and backend systems that power Trading API product features like elite, high-yield cash, paper accounts, and more. Working closely with our users and internal stakeholders, we specialize in delivering high-quality end-to-end solutions across the full suite of frontend and backend systems at Alpaca.

We’re looking for someone with a proven track record of designing and building scalable applications with an appreciation of the full-stack user experience. You’ll dive deep and specialize in a breadth of backend financial systems - payments, trading, market data, accounts, and more - to deliver innovative product features across the stack, while leading the design and implementation of the components that power elegant and performant frontend user experiences.

Things You Get To Do:

• Play a pivotal role in architecting and developing software solutions across the full stack that push the boundaries of technology
• Work closely with cross-functional teams and dive deep into the backend systems and infrastructure that power financial markets
• Opportunity to contribute to API design and product features within our ecosystem 
• Own the delivery of high-visibility features/projects, from design to deployment

• Mentor peers and influence the technical strategy of our company

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• 5+ years of experience in full-stack development with Golang & TypeScript/React.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to collect and translate stakeholder requirements into fully realized features.
• Proficient in TypeScript and React.
• Proficient in HTML and CSS frameworks such as TailwindCSS.
• Proficient in at least one modern systems programming language like Golang or C#.
• Passionate about creating intuitive and performance user interfaces.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Experience with REST APIs and best practices.
• Attention to detail and an appreciation for design aesthetics.

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

• Algo trading experience (either professional or personal).
• Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP).
• Experience or understanding of financial markets.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working at a startup.
• Experience working remotely.

Your Role: We are seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and develop the data management layer for our platform to ensure its scalability as we expand to larger customers and new jurisdictions. At Alpaca, data engineering encompasses financial transactions, customer data, API logs, system metrics, augmented data, and third-party systems that impact decision-making for both internal and external users. We process hundreds of millions of events daily, with this number growing as we onboard new customers.

We prioritize open-source solutions in our data management approach, leveraging a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) foundation for our data infrastructure. This includes batch/stream ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers for BI, internal use, and external third-party sinks. Additionally, we oversee data experimentation, cataloging, and monitoring and alerting systems.

Our team is 100% distributed and remote.

Responsibilities:

• Design and oversee key forward- and reverse-ETL patterns to deliver data to relevant stakeholders.
• Develop scalable patterns in the transformation layer to ensure repeatable integrations with BI tools across various business verticals.
• Expand and maintain the Alpaca Data Lakehouse architecture's constantly evolving elements.
• Collaborate closely with sales, marketing, product, and operations teams to address key data flow needs.
• Operate the system and manage production issues in a timely manner.

Must-Haves:

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, including 2+ years of building scalable, low-latency data platforms capable of handling >100M events/day.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, with strong working knowledge of Python and SQL.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Strong hands-on experience with relational database systems and object storage implementations like Apache Iceberg.
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and its various data-related services (Composer, Dataproc, Datastream, etc.)
• Experience in building scalable transformation layers, preferably through formalized SQL models (e.g., dbt).
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt solutions to changing business needs.
• Experience with ETL orchestrators / frameworks like Apache Airflow and Airbyte.
• Production experience with streaming systems like Kafka.
• Exposure to infrastructure, DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), like Terraform.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, storage, transactions, and query processing utilizing open-source distributed query engines like Trino (formerly PrestoSQL).
• If you're passionate about data engineering and thrive in a dynamic startup environment, we'd love to hear from you! 

Your Role:

We are looking for a Head of Data to lead Alpaca’s ~15-person data department across Platform Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science. You will own the data strategy, the team’s execution, and the department’s roadmap.

The Data department serves every function at Alpaca: it powers partner invoicing and revenue attribution, provides the analytical foundation for sales, product, and compliance, and operates the data platform that processes hundreds of millions of events daily. You will manage three team leads, balancing operational delivery (invoicing, embedded analytics, regulatory reporting) with strategic bets (self-service warehouse, AI-powered analytics, enterprise search).

This is a player-coach role. You will set direction for the team while staying close enough to the technical details to make architecture decisions, unblock your leads, and represent data’s capabilities to the executive team.

Things You Get To Do:

• Lead and develop three sub-teams: Platform Engineering & ETL, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science & Analytics. Manage leads, set priorities, and ensure delivery.
• Own the Data Lakehouse architecture: Trino, Iceberg/GCS, Airflow, Airbyte, Redpanda CDC, dbt. Make build-vs-buy decisions on tooling.
• Drive partner invoicing accuracy and evolution: ensure invoicing logic is versioned, reproducible, and scales with new pricing mechanisms and product launches.
• Deliver embedded analytics: expose warehouse data to partners via BrokerDash, SSR pipelines, and API-based reporting. Own row-level security and entitlements.
• Support product launches with data change management: coordinate data impact analysis for new products (fixed income, global stocks, perps, 24/5 trading) across downstream datasets, dashboards, and reverse ETL.
• Accelerate self-service: move the organization toward self-serve analytics via semantic layers, data catalogues, and conversational BI so the data team can shift from ad-hoc queries to strategic projects.
• Guide AI/ML enablement: oversee enterprise AI search, agent-based workflow automation, and LLM-powered analytics. Help balance vendor solutions with in-house development.
• Collaborate with Finance, Sales, Product, Compliance, and Customer Success to translate business needs into data products.
• Manage infrastructure costs: keep data + cloud cost ratio under target as AUC grows.
• Operate production systems: own on-call processes, incident response, and SLOs for data freshness, accuracy, and availability.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• 8+ years in data engineering or analytics, including 3+ years managing data teams (leads + ICs).
• Deep experience with modern data stack: dbt, Trino/Presto or equivalent query engines, Apache Iceberg or similar table formats, cloud object storage.
• Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT patterns at scale: CDC (Debezium/Kafka), batch (Airflow/dbt), streaming, and reverse ETL.
• Track record of building self-service analytics capabilities for non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with financial data: trading, invoicing, revenue attribution, or regulatory reporting in fintech or financial services.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL. Comfortable reading code, reviewing PRs, and making architecture decisions.
• Experience managing distributed/remote teams across multiple time zones.
• Strong stakeholder management: you can translate between executive priorities and engineering execution.
• Experience with GCP (GKE, GCS, BigQuery migration), Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform.

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

• Experience with brokerage or broker-dealer operations (clearing, settlement, market making, reconciliation).
• Familiarity with LLM/AI tooling: MCP, vector databases, enterprise search, conversational BI (WrenAI, Cube).
• Background in compliance analytics (AML/Actimize, KYC, margin calls).
• Exposure to open-source data catalogues (OpenMetadata, Collate) and data quality frameworks.

Your Role:

We're looking for a passionate and experienced Lead Product Designer to join our growing team. In this role, you'll play a key part in shaping the future of product design at Alpaca. You'll help bring design thinking to product development by collaborating with talented colleagues and improving the design quality of our products globally. 

What you'll do:

• Own the design process: Lead the end-to-end design for complex web and mobile applications, from user research and discovery to pixel-perfect execution.
• Champion user needs: Deeply understand our diverse user base (global B2B and B2C customers, as well as internal teams) and advocate for their needs throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Shape our design processes: Support efforts to shape and evolve design processes and rituals, exploring and applying AI thoughtfully to improve collaboration, creativity, and efficiency.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Proactively bring stakeholders and users through the design process to bring projects to life.
• Execute proactively: Manage multiple product and feature launches across our dashboards while consistently raising design quality.

Who you are:

• Experienced: You have 12+ years of experience in product design, with a track record of consistently delivering design quality across multiple end-user touchpoints in a fast-paced environment. 
• Leadership: You’ve led a team of designers across multiple end-user experiences, aligning the team around product priorities and user-centred design strategy, while also delivering high-quality design work as a hands-on contributor.
• User-centric: You're passionate about understanding user needs through research and metrics and advocating for user experience throughout the product lifecycle, regardless of touchpoint. 
• Collaborative: Facilitate alignment across product, engineering, and other relevant teams, advocating for user needs with data and research.
• Systems Level Thinking: You have experience standing up processes, rituals, and standards to ensure design consistency across the product ecosystem.
• Technical proficiency: You have a solid understanding of working with API based products, advocating for user needs within API development, and a strong understanding of how designs are implemented.

Your Role:

Reporting to the Vice President, the Commercial Counsel will have exceptional negotiating and drafting experience, product support, and fintech services industry experience. You will need to be able to combine business acumen and creativity to negotiate terms to help launch key business initiatives. You will play an immediate and direct role in complex commercial transactional work supporting our sales, technology, product, partnerships, and enterprise teams. 

Things You Get To Do:

Commercial & Transactional Leadership:

• Draft, review, and negotiate complex financial and commercial agreements, including
  • Clearing agreements
  • Crypto and digital asset services agreements
  • Securities lending and margin documentation
  • B2B API, SaaS, and embedded brokerage partnerships
  • Derivatives and futures documentation
  • Vendor and event contracts

• Structure novel partnership arrangements that support Alpaca’s API-first brokerage model.
• Develop scalable contracting frameworks, templates, and playbooks to support global expansion.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Work closely with Sales, Compliance, Operations, Finance, InfoSec, and other stakeholders to ensure commercial arrangements align with regulatory and operational requirements.

Strategic Impact

• Challenge assumptions and help design creative legal structures that scale financial services infrastructure.
• Bring practical, business-oriented solutions to complex cross-border regulatory issues.
• Contribute to the evolution of Alpaca’s global legal strategy as we expand across North America, Europe, MENA, APAC, and LATAM.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• Licensed attorney with 5-8+ years of experience working at:
• A financial services institution (e.g., bank, broker-dealer, asset manager, FCM, payments firm, crypto exchange), or
• A law firm supporting such clients.
• Strong history of commercial and transactional legal work in financial services.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating complex financial agreements (clearing, prime brokerage, crypto, derivatives, or similar).
• Familiarity with U.S. regulatory regimes applicable to securities, crypto, and/or derivatives (SEC/FINRA, CFTC/NFA)
• Excellent judgment, analytical rigor, and clear communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to own projects from concept to execution.
• Practical, solution-oriented mindset with strong business judgment.
• Comfort working with cross-functional, globally distributed teams.
• Intellectual curiosity and interest in fintech, digital assets and blockchain technology.

Your Role:

The Director of Compliance reports to the Chief Compliance Officer and supports all aspects of the Firm’s compliance program. This role works closely across business lines and functions to ensure alignment and effective execution of compliance initiatives. The ideal candidate is proactive, highly organized, and able to manage multiple solutions and maintain strong stakeholder relationships. 

Things You Get To Do:

• Apply practical knowledge of FINRA rules and regulations to ensure compliance oversight across the firm.
• Partner with business units to understand workflows, monitor controls, and implement compliance process improvements.
• Draft, update, and maintain compliance policies and supervisory procedures.
• Review advertising, marketing, and electronic communications for regulatory compliance.
• Support regulatory examinations, inquiries, and requests, including gathering data, preparing documentation, and coordinating responses.
• Assist in the preparation and submission of required regulatory filings and reports.
• Assist with branch inspections and supervisory reviews, track findings, and follow up with business leads.
• Assist in the preparation and submission of required regulatory filings and reports.
• Experience with new product launches and ongoing product governance.
  
  

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• At least 10 years of experience managing compliance matters within FINRA, SEC, and OCC jurisdictions, preferably in a broker-dealer and clearing firm environment.  
• Deep knowledge of U.S. securities regulations, including FINRA/SEC rules, and registration/licensing obligations.
• Strong written communication skills for drafting regulatory documentation and policies.
• Proven ability to work independently and produce actionable compliance work, not just advisory guidance.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, global environment with evolving regulatory requirements.
• Proficiency in using compliance software and tools.
• High ethical standards and a commitment to maintaining confidentiality.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Law, or a related field.
• Required FINRA licenses: Series 7, 24; additional licenses and designations are a plus.