Jobs at Alpaca

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

Support Alpaca's Financial Crimes team by investigating AML, sanctions, and fraud alerts; prepare SAR narratives; perform KYC/CDD/EDD reviews; screen against sanctions/PEP lists; respond to regulatory and law enforcement requests; improve transaction monitoring and compliance controls.

Lead insider risk and data loss investigations from triage to closure, operate and tune DLP across environments, build detections and workflows, partner with HR/Legal/Compliance/IT, mature insider risk program, support audits, and mentor others.

As a Senior SDET, you will enhance testing practices, improve CI pipelines, mentor engineers, and ensure platform reliability through comprehensive testing strategies.