Senior Data Engineer, Alpaca
+Stock Options
APAC Time Zone
API for stock and crypto trading
Job no longer available
API for stock and crypto trading
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+Stock Options
APAC Time Zone
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unlock asset management for the people by modularising the world’s asset management activities.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience of data engineering at scale
- 5+ years experience in software engineering, proficiency in at least one programming language, strong working knowledge of Python
- 3+ years experience in building data warehouse/data lake platform
- Experience with 3rd party data integration projects
- Experience with ETL technologies like Airflow, Airbyte, DBT
- Strong knowledge of cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Prometheus
- Strong hands on experience in relational database systems
- Production experience with streaming systems like Kafka
- Experience with infrastructure, Devops and IaaC
- Deep knowledge around problems and solutions around the distributed system, storage, transactions, query processing
- Experience handling high volume customer data, metrics and transactions, including SQL, BI tools
- Exposure to big data distributed file systems
- Experience with data security best practices including handling of sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII)
- You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
- Desire and ability to work in a fast paced environment, excitement about adapting your solutions to the changing needs of business
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer who will design and develop the data management layer for our platform
- Data engineering at Alpaca spans across financial transactions, customer data, API logs, system metrics, analytics augmented data and third-party systems that affect both internal and external user's decision making
- As our business grows, the complexity and volume of data will progressively grow, from billions of data points in a month today
- Design and oversee the key forward and reverse ETL patterns to expose the data to relevant stakeholders
- Expand the key elements of the Alpaca Data Lakehouse architecture
- Empower the data analytics team deploy data intensive applications
- Work closely with sales, marketing, product, operations to address the needs for key data flows
- Operate the system and handle the production issues in a timely manner
Our take
Alpaca offers a developer-first API for stock trading. It enables companies to offer short-stock trading both worldwide and competitively commission-free across various programming languages. Within one year of launch Alpaca facilitated over $1 billion in transactions.
This is impressive, but not surprising. Fintech apps that facilitate stock trading on a level previously inaccessible to retail investors are on the rise. Alpaca puts this software within reach of companies who may previously have lacked the ability or the tech to do so, meaning it delivers a valuable service.
Despite plenty of competition, Alpaca has created a solid position for itself. It is well-funded and set on international expansion as well as further development of its offering. In 2025, the company was accepted as a Nasdaq Exchange Member, reflecting its progression toward building in-house, full-stack brokerage infrastructure.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jan 2026
$150m
SERIES D
Apr 2025
$52m
SERIES C
Total funding: $289m
Company benefits
- Stock Options
- Health benefits from day 1 (internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs)
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
- Work with awesome people, clients and partners from around the world
- Medical, Dental, Vision 🇺🇸
- Supplemental health care 🇨🇦
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Hitoshi Harada
(CPO)Former Database Kernel Architect at pivotal Inc and contributor at PostgreSQL Global development Group. Graduated from Keio University.
Yoshi Yokokawa
(CEO)Co-founder of Ikkyo Technology and former Forex Trader. Former Vice-President at Nomura.
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