VP of Engineering Institutional Trading
Role Overview
As VP of Engineering, Institutional Trading, you will lead the engineering strategy for expanding Alpaca's API-driven trading platform into sophisticated institutional use cases, reporting to the CTO. You will build and scale a focused engineering team responsible for institutional trading capabilities across multiple asset classes, working closely with senior leaders to evolve the platform toward a multi-asset, cross-margining offering. This senior-level role involves defining the engineering roadmap, leading a high-performing team, and driving architectural decisions to extend the brokerage platform into a new institutional tier.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote role with a globally distributed team of 230+ members across multiple countries, allowing flexibility to work from anywhere. The company emphasizes a dynamic culture with core values of staying curious, having empathy, and being accountable, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. Career growth opportunities are significant, given Alpaca's rapid expansion and recent Series C funding, with expectations for occasional collaboration across time zones like US, Japan, and Europe.
Full Job Description
Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 6 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.Your Role: Alpaca is building the next-generation market infrastructure for active and institutional traders. As VP of Engineering, Institutional Trading, you will lead the engineering strategy for expanding Alpaca's industry-leading API-driven trading and brokerage platform into more sophisticated institutional use cases. Reporting to the CTO, 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. This role is designed for a VP-level engineering leader who can extend a proven brokerage platform into a new institutional tier through strong architectural judgment, execution discipline, and team leadership. Things You Get To Do:
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