Director of Engineering, Trading

🕒 Maio 29

🏄 California, New York – Remoto

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Tempo Integral

🔴 Especialista

🖥 Engenheiro de Software

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Alpaca

SiteLinkedInTodas as Vagas

201 - 500 funcionários

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Cripto

API • Fintech • Crypto

Alpaca é uma empresa de fintech que fornece uma plataforma completa de corretagem e negociação por meio de um conjunto de APIs. Essas APIs permitem que desenvolvedores e empresas integrem trading algorítmico, desenvolvimento de apps e investimentos embutidos aos seus serviços. A Alpaca oferece serviços como negociação de ações dos EUA, ETFs e criptomoedas, com opções para transações em moeda local. A empresa é reconhecida por suas práticas de segurança cibernética e é membro da FINRA e da SIPC. A Alpaca é ideal para startups de fintech, broker-dealers, hedge funds e outras empresas de serviços financeiros que buscam criar aplicações e plataformas de negociação sofisticadas, com o mínimo de fricção, por meio de sua Broker API bem documentada.

Descrição

• 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.

🎯 Requisitos

• 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.

🏖️ Benefícios

• 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