Legal Counsel

🕒 August 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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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

• Navigate complex regulatory frameworks to help the business design and implement innovative financial products and services • Lead legal reviews of product design, marketing, and customer onboarding processes to ensure compliance with applicable regulations while enabling business growth • Support digital assets, payments, and data privacy matters as needed • Advise on new or anticipated legal requirements and regulatory guidance as applied to systems, policies, and procedures • Monitor regulatory developments at the SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FinCEN, OFAC, and other relevant agencies and self-regulatory organizations • Support the company’s engagement with regulators • Draft agreements, disclosures, policies, and procedures • Conduct legal research and analysis on novel questions and provide practical guidance to internal stakeholders • Manage litigation, arbitration, and other disputes, including case strategy, outside counsel, claims, discovery, risk, and resolution options • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Brokerage, Crypto, Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering, Sales, and Success teams

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar • 5-7+ years of legal experience, with at least 3 years focused on U.S. broker-dealer regulation, including the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, regulations and rules thereunder, FINRA rules, and other federal and state securities laws • Familiarity with U.S. cryptoasset regulatory regimes, including the SEC, CFTC, NYDFS, FinCEN, and AML requirements • Strong experience advising fintechs or financial institutions, ideally in a startup or growth-stage environment • Demonstrated ability to deliver strategic, business-oriented legal advice under tight deadlines • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a practical, collaborative working style • Strong judgment, self-motivation, and the ability to work independently and manage multiple projects • Comfort with ambiguity and a growth mindset in a fast-scaling company

🏖️ 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 • Equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce