Trading Operations Senior Associate

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges.

Alpaca’s globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are also deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our award-winning developer-friendly API and the infrastructure behind it.

Our Team Members:

We’re a team of 150+ globally distributed members who love working from our favorite places worldwide. Our team spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and more!

We’re looking for candidates eager to join Alpaca’s growing organization, who are excited about our Mission of “Open financial services to everyone on the planet and share our Values of “Stay Curious,” “Have Empathy,” and “Be Accountable.”

As a senior trading associate you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the Equity and Options Trading Operations team. This includes building scalable infrastructure and procedures and nurturing/supporting a strong work ethic from yourself and others in-line with Alpaca’s core values of Curiosity, Global Empathy, and Accountability.

• Create and improve upon a world class execution platform

• Assist in the Firm’s Best-Execution Program by reviewing post-trade exception reports.  

• Review Trade Surveillance reports and take appropriate action to resolve alerts 

• Monitor order flow for irregularities 

• Timely resolution of client trade escalations

• Create/update policies and procedures as needed

• Reconciliation of firm error and inventory accounts

• Risk monitoring/trading of firm held positions

• Maintain firm GTC order book

• Create and drive new initiatives

• Assist the Director of Trading Operations in the execution of firm objective

Ad Hoc duties and responsibilities as assigned

• FINRA Licences:

  • Series 7

  • Series 57

  • Series 24

  • Series 63

  • Series 4 (able to get in 6 months)

• Experience with both front and back end processes for trading lifecycle (Equity and Options)

• Experience in SQL (willingness to learn)

• Experience creating and maintaining relationships with executing counterparties 

• Experience with order quality evaluations including execution and market manipulation testing

• A leader that has a track record of successful team building and creating growth opportunities for their team members

• Prior experience with Financial or FINTech startups 

• Prior experience working with international clients