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What they do

Alpaca builds brokerage APIs. Apps, banks, and other financial companies use them to offer trading in stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income. Hundreds of financial institutions in over 40 countries use Alpaca. Its partners opened over 7 million brokerage accounts. Alpaca also has a trading API for developers. It started in 2015 as a database and machine learning company.

What they value

• Stay curious.
• Have empathy, and be honest and clear.
• Be accountable.
• A goal-oriented culture, where the right questions are heard from anyone.
• A global mindset, in a team spread across many countries.

Where they hire

Alpaca is fully remote. Most roles name a region: 20 the Americas, seven EMEA, five APAC, and six North America. Others are open anywhere, or in both Europe and the Americas. One settlements role is in India. A Singapore team lead role is remote in APAC. Some roles need Japanese or Korean. No posting mentions visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

Engineering is the largest group, with 30 of 68 roles. Product has 10, and information security has six.

• Engineering: senior and staff software engineers for trading, clearing, ledger, market data, payments, identity, margin and risk, corporate actions, and the platform. Site reliability and DevOps engineers also work in APAC.
• Agents: two roles build the MCP servers, tools, and APIs that AI agents use to trade, and the checks in front of the trading systems.
• New markets: engineers for Japan, and a team lead in Singapore who builds brokerage services for the region.
• Product: product managers for brokerage in the EU and UK, clearing, corporate actions, derivatives, crypto, market data, and the Trading API.
• Operations: brokerage, cashiering, settlements, and crypto operations, with risk and compliance analysts.

Roles offer a salary and stock options.

What they look for

Most engineering roles ask for Go. Many also ask for Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and PostgreSQL. Some ask for gRPC and protobuf. Senior roles ask for five or more years of experience, and staff and manager roles ask for seven to ten or more. Many prefer experience at a startup, in financial services or brokerage, or with remote work.

Japan engineering roles need business-level or fluent Japanese. The Singapore team lead role asks for staff-level backend skill, people leadership, and knowledge of brokerage. Some product and operations roles ask for regular use of AI tools, such as Cursor or Claude.