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Team Lead - Trading

Alpaca
Location
Remote - Americas
Posted
24 days ago
Department
Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Strong, experienced software engineer at a senior or staff level who has led a team, formally or as a tech lead
  • Demonstrated ability to grow engineers: mentoring, feedback, and raising the level of people around you
  • Track record of delivering complex systems on schedule, including scoping, sequencing and cutting the right things
  • Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python
  • Low latency and high throughput optimization
  • Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
Nice to have
  • Experience hiring and building out an engineering team from a small base
  • Experience owning a production trading or brokerage system as the accountable lead
  • Algo trading experience (either professional or personal)
  • FIX protocol knowledge
  • Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking
What the job really is

As a Team Lead at Alpaca, you will guide the development of the algo trading platform, ensuring high quality and performance for users. This hands-on leadership role involves coding, making technical decisions, and managing the team's roadmap and delivery. You will also mentor engineers, oversee production systems, and collaborate across teams to meet business goals.

Benefits
  • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • Health Benefits
  • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Things to weigh
  • No salary listed
  • Role requires a strong technical background in both frontend and backend development
  • Expectations for hands-on coding and technical decision-making may not suit those seeking pure management roles
  • Experience with trading systems is mandatory, which may limit candidates without this background
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