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Director of Engineering, Trading
Alpaca
Remote · North AmericaSalary not disclosedfull-timeAlpaca Careers
Reporting to the CPO/CTO/OCTO [TBD], you will build and scale a focused engineering organization responsible for institutional trading capabilities across multiple asset classes. You will work closely with the Global Head of Brokerage and other senior leaders to evolve Alpaca’s platform toward a multi-asset, cross-margining offering spanning FX, futures, and other derivatives alongside existing equities and options.
Responsibilities
- 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
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- Remote
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- Posted
- 29 May 2026
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- In the last 5 days
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