Team Lead – Trading
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Team Lead building Alpaca’s algorithmic trading platform for global brokerage APIs. Leading architecture, delivery, production reliability, and engineering team growth.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the team building Alpaca's algorithmic trading platform
- Design and architect the platform while continuing to write code and make critical technical decisions
- Own technical direction and architecture for the team's services, including trade-off decisions and long-term consequences
- Own the roadmap and delivery by scoping, sequencing, and shipping engineering work predictably
- Manage day-to-day execution, including sprint or cycle planning, unblocking engineers, and stakeholder visibility
- Set code and design quality standards through reviews, design documents, and personal contributions
- Own production reliability, latency, correctness targets, on-call health, and incident follow-through
- Hire, onboard, provide 1:1s and feedback, manage performance, and support career growth for a small engineering team
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, operations, compliance, clearing, and other engineering teams
Requirements:
- 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
- Analytical data-oriented mindset and skills
- Knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, low latency systems and concurrency control
- System design skills with object-oriented data modeling, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction
- Experience with the development and implementation of Order Management systems (OMS) and Risk Management systems (RMS)
- Clear written and verbal communication, including with non-engineering stakeholders
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and limited process, as expected at an early stage startup
- Previous software engineering experience with trading or exchange systems (OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, quant trading)
- Previous experience leading engineers
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
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