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Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

Build and maintain Alpaca Connect developer-platform experiences using TypeScript, React, and Go. Improve onboarding, app management, compliance review, publishing, consent, and permissions workflows. Design APIs and integrations with identity, account, trading, and market-data systems while creating secure, auditable self-service tools. Own features from design through production and collaborate with Product, Design, Compliance, Support, Partnerships, and Platform teams.

Provide business-oriented legal guidance on U.S. broker-dealer regulation, digital assets, payments, privacy, product launches, marketing, onboarding, regulatory engagement, agreements, policies, and disputes. Monitor SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC developments; conduct legal research; advise cross-functional teams; and manage litigation, arbitration, outside counsel, claims, and discovery.

Own high-impact cross-functional operating constraints from discovery through measurable resolution. Diagnose root causes across domains, design and build process, automation, governance, or organizational solutions, mobilize teams without direct authority, drive adoption, measure outcomes, and establish durable ownership. The role requires systems thinking, analytical rigor, prioritization, executive communication, and sustained implementation to create operating leverage across the company.

Lead and conduct AML, anti-fraud, and securities fraud investigations; prepare SARs; respond to sanctions and regulatory requests; maintain risk assessments; support audits and regulatory engagements; develop policies, procedures, and monitoring controls; collaborate with stakeholders and compile reports for management and regulators.

Own full-cycle recruiting for high-volume technical roles, primarily in Engineering. Partner with engineering leaders, develop hiring strategies and talent pipelines, manage concurrent searches, source difficult-to-find candidates, report on recruiting metrics, improve candidate experience, and use AI, ATS tools, and recruiting data to enhance hiring processes.

Lead Alpaca’s media and content strategy, building an AI-first content operating system and scalable media brand. Own editorial voice, podcasts, video, newsletters, executive thought leadership, distribution, audience growth, governance, measurement, and optimization. Transform company initiatives into multi-channel content while partnering across business functions. Build and manage a world-class content and media team focused on brand influence, audience engagement, and commercial impact.

Own the product lifecycle and architecture for Alpaca’s clearing infrastructure, including brokerage, custody, ledgers, settlements, stock records, regulatory books, asset movement, and multi-currency support. Partner with engineering, operations, finance, compliance, legal, treasury, risk, and product teams to build scalable, regulator-ready systems across global asset classes. Translate complex clearing requirements into technical designs, prototypes, and production infrastructure while leading teams in a high-growth environment.

The Senior Full-Stack Engineer will design, implement, and maintain systems for Trading API customers, focusing on both frontend and backend development, while leading projects and mentoring peers.

The role involves leading the engineering team to build and scale institutional trading capabilities across various asset classes while ensuring a robust architecture and technical standards.