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Alpaca

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201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

API • Fintech • Crypto

Alpaca is a fintech company that provides a comprehensive brokerage and trading platform through a suite of APIs. These APIs enable developers and businesses to integrate algorithmic trading, app development, and embedded investing into their services. Alpaca offers services like trading in US stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency with options for local currency transactions. The company is recognized for its cyber security practices and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. Alpaca is ideal for fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services looking to build sophisticated trading applications and platforms with minimal friction through their well-documented Broker API.

📋 Description

• Own the strategy, growth, and operational performance of Alpaca's global crypto exchange business • Lead expansion across B2C and B2B2C offerings, drive licensing, product, and commercial initiatives, and partner cross-functionally to build a scalable, compliant, and market-leading platform • Grow our spot crypto business, including B2C crypto trading and B2B2C Crypto-as-a-Service • Build and execute license strategies • Ensure a flawless compliance record • Oversee audits, both financial and regulatory • Prospect and decide what new features to add to make our crypto offering competitive • Improve the UI/UX for the direct consumer business (Trading API) • Manage critical contracts with key vendors

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in crypto exchanges, brokerages, or regulated trading venues, with at least 3 years owning a business line rather than a function • Direct experience with VASP, MSB, or equivalent licensing regimes, including regulatory examinations • Working knowledge of exchange mechanics: order books, matching, market making, margin systems, liquidations • Hands-on understanding of crypto operations: custody architecture, hot and cold wallet policy, reconciliation, treasury rebalancing, on-chain settlement • Experience selling and solutioning B2B infrastructure to institutional counterparties, including technical integration conversations without an engineer present • Track record managing vendor contracts at commercial scale • Ability to work across CET and ET time zones daily

🏖️ 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