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distributed systems multi-asset-trading📋 Description
- Build and scale Alpaca's institutional trading platform engineering org.
- Evolve multi-asset trading with cross-margining across FX, futures, derivatives.
- Lead architecture decisions for trading APIs, OMS, risk, and margin engines.
- Set standards for performance, availability, scalability, and latency.
- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives across trading, risk, margin, asset classes.
- Hands-on engineering: PoC code, reviews, production deployments.
🎯 Requirements
- Director-level engineering leader with experience owning critical, market-facing platforms.
- Proven experience building and scaling engineering teams for complex, high-impact systems.
- Deep understanding of institutional trading and brokerage technology, including execution systems, risk and margin platforms, and trading analytics.
- Experience designing or operating systems that support cross-asset risk and margining across multiple asset classes.
- Strong architectural judgment balancing speed, reliability, and control in regulated environments.
- Deep knowledge of OS fundamentals and distributed systems for performance-critical trading.
- Effective partner to senior business, brokerage, and product leaders.
- Clear communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
🎁 Benefits
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: USD 500
- Monthly Stipend: USD 150 via Brex Card
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