Securities Finance Trader

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

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💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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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

• Identify and execute borrow and loan opportunities across various asset classes (equities, fixed income, ETFs) using both manual and automated trading strategies. • Leverage Python and SQL to streamline daily tasks, develop analytical tools, and automate data-driven decisions. • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to optimize data pipelines, trading systems, operational efficiency and risk controls. • Monitor outstanding loans, recalls, and rates to optimize risk and profitability. • Build relationships with borrowers, lenders, custodians, and firm client partners. • Develop and perform operational tasks, product improvements, and automation tools for optimizing costs, revenue and workflow. • Assess and manage counterparty, credit, and market risk while staying informed of market developments and regulatory changes. • Work with existing and new securities lending vendors on product development solutions. • Contribute to creating automated workflow solutions for securities lending trading and operations.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Finance, Economics or a related quantitative field. • 1-5 years of experience in a technical or trading role, ideally with some exposure to securities lending, short selling or related experience. • Proficient in Python and SQL. • Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving abilities. • Familiarity with core financial instruments (equities, fixed income, ETFs) and general market mechanics. • Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work across teams. • High initiative and eagerness to learn about securities lending, product development, and advanced trading concepts.

🏖️ 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