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Staff Fullstack Engineer

Alpaca

Remote · EuropeSalary not disclosedfull-timeAlpaca Careers

We are seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer to lead the technical direction of the team that builds Alpaca's Trading API product. Trading API serves developers, traders, and institutions who trade directly with Alpaca.

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and technical roadmap for how customers access and use Trading API: identity and authentication, authorization and permissions, account and sub-account models, partner OAuth, and customer-facing trading and account-management applications.
  • Design the access model for increasingly complex account structures — multiple users per account, sub-accounts, entity and advisor accounts, and delegated API and agent access — so that permissions are explicit, auditable, and enforced on the server.
  • Lead technical delivery of next-generation Trading API customer applications, including real-time market data, order entry, and positions and order views, as the product expands to new customer surfaces.
  • Drive the move from legacy monolith endpoints to a dedicated application backend, with clear API contracts between customer applications and platform services such as trading, accounts, transfers, ledger, and market data.
  • Set the security bar for customer-facing systems: session and credential handling, MFA and passkeys, OAuth flows, rate limiting, input validation, and fast, durable responses to security findings.
  • Set the standard for safe delivery: feature flags, staged rollouts, preview environments, testing strategy, and production observability.
  • Partner with Product
  • Design, Compliance, Security, Brokerage Operations, and adjacent engineering teams to define behaviour and integration boundaries.
  • Lead design reviews, mentor senior and mid-level engineers, and raise the engineering bar as the team grows.
  • Act as a technical point of escalation for production issues on customer-facing Trading API systems, and drive durable prevention after incidents.

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    Senior
    Posted
    13 Oct 2026
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