Team Lead – Trading

🕒 August 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 27%

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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

• Lead the team building Alpaca's algorithmic trading platform • Design and architect the platform while continuing to write code and make critical technical decisions • Own technical direction and architecture for the team's services, including trade-off decisions and long-term consequences • Own the roadmap and delivery by scoping, sequencing, and shipping engineering work predictably • Manage day-to-day execution, including sprint or cycle planning, unblocking engineers, and stakeholder visibility • Set code and design quality standards through reviews, design documents, and personal contributions • Own production reliability, latency, correctness targets, on-call health, and incident follow-through • Hire, onboard, provide 1:1s and feedback, manage performance, and support career growth for a small engineering team • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, operations, compliance, clearing, and other engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• Strong, experienced software engineer at a senior or staff level who has led a team, formally or as a tech lead • Demonstrated ability to grow engineers: mentoring, feedback, and raising the level of people around you • Track record of delivering complex systems on schedule, including scoping, sequencing and cutting the right things • Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python • Low latency and high throughput optimization • Experience with messaging queues and message brokers • Analytical data-oriented mindset and skills • Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems and concurrency control • System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction • Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS) • Clear written and verbal communication, including with non-engineering stakeholders • Comfort operating with ambiguity and limited process, as expected at an early stage startup • Previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading) • Previous experience leading engineers

🏖️ 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