Director of Engineering, Trading

Your Role

Alpaca is building the next-generation market infrastructure that powers the most sophisticated institutional use cases and expands its API-driven platform to support complex, high-performance "agentic" trading strategies. This strategic expansion ensures a robust and reliable foundation for all active traders, while tailoring our industry-leading brokerage platform to meet the demanding needs of institutional investors.

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.

This role is designed for a Director-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

• Define and own and execute the engineering roadmap for Alpaca’s institutional trading platform
• 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
• Coordinate multiple concurrent initiatives