Director of Engineering, Trading

🕒 il y a 12 jours

🏄 California, New York – Distant

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

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Alpaca

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201 - 500 employés

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

API • Fintech • Crypto

Alpaca est une fintech qui propose une plateforme complète de courtage et de trading via une suite d’API. Ces API permettent aux développeurs et aux entreprises d’intégrer le trading algorithmique, le développement d’applications et l’investissement embarqué à leurs services. Alpaca propose des services tels que le trading d’actions américaines, d’ETF et de cryptomonnaies, avec des options de transactions dans la devise locale. L’entreprise est reconnue pour ses pratiques de cybersécurité et est membre de la FINRA et de la SIPC. Alpaca s’adresse idéalement aux startups fintech, aux courtiers-négociateurs (broker-dealers), aux hedge funds et à d’autres acteurs des services financiers qui souhaitent créer des applications et des plateformes de trading avancées, avec un minimum de frictions, grâce à leur Broker API bien documentée.

Description

• 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.

🎯 Exigences

• 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.

🏖️ Avantages

• 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